The word of a man erected as a hero in the United Kingdom was expected.
The taxi driver who survived the Liverpool bombing a week ago, the perpetrator of which died in the blast, said on Sunday it was a 'miracle' he was not killed .
CCTV footage from the scene shows David Perry, stunned, leaving his vehicle just after it exploded outside the maternity hospital in Liverpool (northern England) last Sunday.
Slightly injured, he was briefly hospitalized.
He had locked this man with suspicious behavior in his vehicle.
The Mayor of Liverpool praised the "heroic efforts" of the taxi driver who "managed to avoid what could have been an absolutely horrific disaster at the city hospital", in whose parking lot the taxi exploded last Sunday.
"It is a miracle that I am alive," said the driver in a statement sent by the police, in which he expresses his relief that "no one else was harmed" by this "diabolical act".
An attack prepared for seven months
“Now I need time to come to terms with what has happened and focus on my healing, both mental and physical,” he added in his first public statement.
The bomb of Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, of Iraqi origin, exploded while he was as a passenger in the taxi in front of the health facility, at the time of the commemorations of the victims of the wars.
The British police consider it a terrorist act as it stands, although according to the media, no ideological motive has yet been identified.
He had been preparing his attack for “at least” seven months, British police said on Wednesday, revealing that he had started buying “essential” components for his coup as early as April.
The investigation established that Emad Al Swealmeen, a failed asylum seeker who had converted to Christianity, had prepared his attack "at least" since he had rented accommodation in April, according to police.
According to British media, investigators believe that the Liverpool explosive device was "manufactured" by this passenger in the taxi, killed by the blast.
Its motivations, however, remain to be determined.
After this attack, the United Kingdom raised Monday to "serious" the level of the terrorist threat on British soil, a month after the murder on October 15 of the deputy David Amess during a parliamentary stay about sixty kilometers from London.
