Man Outside U.K. Parliament Carrying Knives Is Arrested
All four people were arrested under antiterrorism laws, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement, adding
that the episode was not connected to the arrest of the man carrying knives near Parliament.
By SEWELL CHANAPRIL 27, 2017
LONDON — A 27-year-old man carrying knives was arrested Thursday afternoon near Parliament
by the London police, who charged him with planning a terrorist attack.
Later on Thursday, British police said officers shot a woman
and arrested four other people in London and nearby Kent during a counterterrorism investigation, Reuters reported.
The Metropolitan Police, as the police in London are known, said the man was arrested around 2:22 p.m. after he was stopped
and searched in a procedure similar to stop-and-frisk operations in the United States.
The man, whose name was not made public, was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon
and on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism, the police said.
No one was hurt, but the episode immediately rekindled anxieties about the terrorist attack outside Parliament on March 22, when a 52-year-old
British man, Khalid Masood, drove a vehicle into a group of pedestrians, killing four, and stabbed a police officer to death.
