Manchester synagogue attacker claimed allegiance to ISIS, UK police say | ISIL/ISIS News

Police mentioned Jihad al-Shamie known as emergency providers to declare allegiance to armed group as he carried out the assault.

The person who attacked a synagogue within the British metropolis of Manchester that left two Jewish worshippers lifeless had pledged allegiance to ISIS (ISIL) throughout the assault, police mentioned.

In an announcement on Wednesday, United Kingdom counterterror police revealed that the attacker, Jihad al-Shamie, known as emergency providers to declare he was performing for ISIS as he carried out the attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on October 2.

“We are able to affirm that, within the preliminary levels of the assault outdoors the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, a name was made by the attacker to police, claiming to pledge allegiance to the so-called Islamic State,” mentioned a spokesperson for Counter Terrorism Policing North West.

“We’re persevering with to analyze the total circumstances and motivation behind what occurred.”

Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent, made the telephone name after driving a automotive into pedestrians and attacking individuals with a knife on the synagogue within the Manchester suburb of Crumpsall on Yom Kippur, the holiest day within the Jewish calendar.

Armed officers shot lifeless Al-Shamie, who had gave the impression to be carrying an explosive belt, on the scene. Police later mentioned the system was not viable.

Police additionally mentioned an officer had accidentally shot one of many two victims killed within the assault. Adrian Daulby, 53, was unintentionally shot as he and different worshippers barricaded the synagogue to forestall al-Shamie from getting into.

Al-Shamie’s rampage additionally killed Melvin Cravitz, 66, and left three different males hospitalised with severe accidents.

Unknown to counterterror police

Final week, Laurence Taylor, the UK’s head of counterterrorism policing, mentioned authorities believed al-Shamie could have been influenced by excessive ideology.

However he was not on the radar of counterterrorism police, nor had he been referred to the UK’s counter-radicalisation scheme, Stop.

Police mentioned al-Shamie had a felony document and was on bail over an alleged rape on the time of the assault, however hadn’t been charged.

As police examine whether or not al-Shamie obtained help in finishing up the assault, they arrested six individuals within the Larger Manchester space on suspicion of the “fee, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism”.

On Saturday, a court docket granted police 5 additional days to carry 4 of these detained – two males aged 30 and 32, and girls aged 46 and 61 – whereas the 2 others have been launched.

Police haven’t recognized these arrested or their connection to al-Shamie.

The newest revelation within the case got here as a trial of two males alleged to have plotted a separate ISIS-inspired assault towards the Jewish group in Larger Manchester started in a court docket in Preston.

Larger Manchester Police mentioned in an announcement that there was no hyperlink between the trial, by which the defendants have been arrested in Could 2024, and the assault in Crumpsall.