The four men arrested in connection with the investigation were released after questioning. explosion in a taxi which took place on Sunday (14/11) in Liverpool, in northern Britain.
The accused as the perpetrator of the explosion, which was described as a “terrorist act” by the police, is the passenger of the taxi, who was named by the anti-terrorist police as 32-year-old Imad Al Swelmin, a refugee from the Middle East who had become a Christian.
Men aged 20, 21, 26 and 29 respectively, as broadcast by the Athens News Agency were arrested on Sunday and yesterday, Monday, as part of this investigation.
“After the interrogation of those arrested, we are satisfied with the testimonies they gave and they were released,” said Ras Jackson, head of the counterterrorism service, in a statement issued overnight.
Οι ερευνητές της αστυνομίας σημείωσαν «σημαντική πρόοδο από την Κυριακή το πρωί» και «συγκέντρωσαν σημαντικά αποδεικτικά στοιχεία στην διεύθυνση στην λεωφόρο Ρούτλαντ, η οποία βρίσκεται στο επίκεντρο της έρευνας».
At this address, Imad al-Swelmin boarded a taxi on Sunday morning to go to a gynecological hospital in Liverpool. The bomber struck shortly before 11:00 a.m. local time (13:00 Greek time) in front of a hospital on Sunday, a day of remembrance for those killed in the war in Britain.
Discharge for the injured taxi driver
The driver of the taxi, who was injured in the explosion, was discharged from the hospital where he was treated, according to a police announcement yesterday.
A couple of Christians living in Liverpool, Elizabeth and Malcolm Hitchcott, told ITV that Imad al-Swelmin had lived with them, that he had renounced Islam to become a Christian and that he had been baptized in Liverpool Cathedral.
“He stayed here for 8 months and we lived together. “We were never given the impression that something was wrong.” Hitchcott said he was “shocked”.
Following this attack, Britain yesterday upgraded the level of terrorist threat on British soil to “serious”.
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