The author of the stabbing of several minors in the United Kingdom is accused of terrorism in a separate case

Police find an Al Qaeda training manual in his house

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The United Kingdom authorities reported this Tuesday that the teenager accused of stabbing three minors to death in the town of Southport this summer has also been charged with two counts of terrorism after the Police found a manual in his home. Al Qaeda training and ricin.

As detailed by the Merseyside Police Chief, Serena Kennedy, these terrorism accusations are part of a separate case from the attack on a dance school last July, when the attacker stabbed three minors and left almost a dozen injured. , according to information collected by Sky News.

Kennedy has detailed that the accused thus faces a charge of “production of a biological toxin, specifically ricin”, and also a charge of terrorism for possession of information “probably useful to a person who commits or prepares an act of terrorism.” . Specifically, it is a file titled ‘Military studies in the Jihad against tyrants: The Al Qaeda training manual’.

A total of three minors died and eight others were injured, victims of Axel Rudakubana, a Welsh teenager of Rwandan origin who at the end of July stabbed more than a dozen people in a dance workshop in the city of Southport. The event sparked a wave of violent protests of a xenophobic and anti-immigration nature.

British authorities have now assured that, despite having found traces of ricin at his home, there is no evidence that the attacker used this toxin in the attack in Southport. Kennedy added that the risk of infection to the public or research workers is “low or very low.”

“There was no evidence that the victims, emergency workers or the public were exposed to ricin, either as part of the incident or afterwards. Our initial risk assessment determined that the risk to the community and general public was low. “, they have explained from the United Kingdom Health Security Agency.

As it is, Rudakabuna – accused of three counts of murder and another ten of attempted murder – will appear on Wednesday by videoconference before Westminster Magistrates’ Court in relation to these terrorism accusations.