Original title: British Conservative Party MP was assassinated and killed by police. Qualitative terrorist attack. Source: CCTV News Client
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British Conservative MP David Ames was assassinated while meeting voters in Essex on the 15th. The police said on the 16th that the case was a terrorist attack and the suspect committed the crime alone.
This is the second time a member of Parliament was killed and attacked in the UK in five years. The British Prime Minister and many politicians were shocked by the attack, and the security issue of parliamentarians aroused concern.
Operation “Lone Wolf”
According to the Associated Press, the incident occurred at noon on the 15th in a church about 62 kilometers east of London, the British capital. Ames was stabbed multiple times by a knife-bearer while attending a voter meeting in the electoral district. The police and medical staff rushed to the scene immediately, and Ames was injured in many places and died on the spot.
“The police and medical staff tried their best to rescue David Ames…Unfortunately, he died on the spot,” Essex County Police Commissioner Ben-Julian Harrington told reporters that the police believed that the incident had nothing to others. Any direct threat.
A 25-year-old man was arrested by the police at the scene of the crime on suspicion of murder.
The case was led by the anti-terrorism department of the London Police Department. The London Police Department issued a statement on the 16th, declaring this fatal case as a “terrorist incident.”
According to the police, the preliminary investigation revealed that the case was “potentially related to extremism.” “As part of the investigation, the police are conducting searches in two locations in the London area.”
The police believe that the arrested suspect was acting alone. According to the British Sky News Channel, the arrested man is a British citizen of Somali descent.
Shocked
Ames is 69 years old, married and has five children. He is a member of the ruling Conservative Party. In 1983, he became a member of the House of Commons of the British Parliament. In 2015, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II award for his public service contributions.
After Ames was assassinated, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he and his cabinet were “deeply shocked and heartbroken.”
Former British Prime Minister Theresa May, Prince William and his wife, etc. all expressed their condolences for the death of Ames.
According to Reuters, all government buildings in the UK will fly at half-mast to mourn Ames. Some residents at the site of the incident held a vigil in a church to hold memorial activities.
Precedent
This is not the first time a member of Parliament has been attacked in the UK.
In June 2016, MP Joe Cox, who advocated that the United Kingdom stay in the European Union, was attacked and killed while participating in a constituency event in West Yorkshire in the north of England.
In 2010, a female student stabbed Stephen Tims, a member of the House of Commons of the British Parliament, with a kitchen knife.
Tims said he was “shocked” by the assassination of Ames. Cox’s widower Brendan said this was “the most cowardly act.”
Cox’s sister, Kim Lidbitt, was elected to the same district councillor Cox represented during his lifetime earlier this year. She said, “Another family has to go through this situation again, which is terrible”, indicating that the parliamentarian must take “a huge risk”.
According to the Associated Press, British MPs are protected by armed police in the parliament building. In 2017, after a terrorist attack near the Houses of Parliament in central London, parliamentary security was strengthened. But members of parliament do not have similar security in the constituency. Ames previously announced on his website the time and place of his public meetings with voters.
The speaker of the lower house of the British parliament, Lindsay Hoyle, said that this incident will impact the parliament and the country as a whole, and the safety of members must be discussed. Home Secretary Pritty Patel said that she has asked the police to check the safety of members.
(Edited by Dai Genhua)
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