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UK: Four Far-Right Terrorist Plots Foiled Since Westminster Attack - Police

UK: Four Far-Right Terrorist Plots Foiled Since Westminster Attack - Police
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Far-right terrorists pose an "organized and significant" threat to the UK, the county's most senior terror officer warned while revealing that four plots have been foiled in the past year.

UK: Four Far-Right Terrorist Plots Foiled Since Westminster Attack - Police

Mark Rowley, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, made the figure public for the first time to "illustrate the growth of right-wing terrorism".

"The right-wing terrorist threat is more significant and more challenging than perhaps the public debate gives it credit for," he said.

Security services, however, have been warning of a shift since the murder of Labor MP Jo Cox in 2016, with the past year seeing five mainly Daesh-inspired [the Arabic acronym for terrorist ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] terror attacks leave 36 victims dead in London and Manchester.

Giving a lecture at an event held by the Policy Exchange think tank, Rowley added that: "A deeply concerning characteristic is how both far-right and also [‘Islamist'] terrorism are growing, allowing each side to reaffirm their grievances and justify their actions."

He said police and MI5 have disrupted 10 terrorist plots and four far-right plots since the Westminster attack in March last year.

Rowley declined to give details of the four cases for legal reasons, but said they represent a combination of "organized and individual" action.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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