28 August 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 24 August 2024, an individual conducted a Fire as a Weapon attack at the Beth Yaacov synagogue in La Grande-Motte, France. Reporting suggests that the individual started fires at two entrances to the synagogue and two vehicles in its car park were set alight. One of the vehicles reportedly contained at least one gas canister and exploded. A police officer was injured {X}. Prosecutors stated that the male suspect was recorded on surveillance fleeing the site carrying a Palestinian flag and a...
27 August 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 23 August 2024, Issa Al H, 26-years-old, conducted a Bladed Weapons attack in the western German city of Solingen {X}. The individual conducted the attack at approximately 21:40 at a free music concert during the “Festival of Diversity”; a festival celebrating the 650-year history of Solingen. Three individuals were killed and eight others were injured, four of them severely. German authorities arrested the perpetrator on 25 August 2024 after he turned himself into police and claimed...
06 August 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 23 July 2024, at approximately 17:50, a British Army soldier was stabbed in Kent in proximity to Brompton Barracks, the headquarters of the British Army’s 1 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment. Anthony Esan, 24, was arrested on the same day at approximately 18:30 at his home in Rochester {X}. On 25 July 2024, Esan was charged with attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place {X}. Medway magistrates’ court heard that Esan had reportedly been in possession...
30 July 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 30 July 2024, Anjem Choudary, 57, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 28 years for directing a terrorist organisation and encouraging support for a terrorist organisation following a joint investigation between MI5, the Metropolitan Police Service, the New York Police Department (NYPD), and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) {X}{X}. Each of the charges related to the proscribed organisation, al-Muhajiroun. Anjem Choudary helped found al-Muhajiroun in 1996 and...
17 July 2024 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 16 July 2024, a 16-year-old from Stockton-on-Tees was given a three year Youth Rehabilitation Order and a three year Criminal Behaviour Order, after admitting to possessing Extreme Right-Wing material and distributing harmful material to others on social media {X}. The individual was arrested in December 2023 by counterterrorism police after his teachers became concerned over slogans and pictures he had written on a mock exam paper – including a picture of Auschwitz and racist comments {X}. A...
