Firebomb attack at Dover immigration centre ‘motivated by terrorist ideology’

The person’s firebombing was fuelled by excessive right-wing ideology (Image: Reuters)

The person who threw petrol bombs at a Border Drive migrant centre in Dover was pushed by ‘terrorist ideology’, counter-terrorism police mentioned right now.

The suspect, named as 66-year-old Andrew Leak, is believed to have killed himself after lobbing ‘crude’ firebombs on the Western Jet Foil web site final Sunday.

Mr Leak drove greater than 100 miles from his Buckinghamshire residence to throw two to 3 selfmade incendiary gadgets out of his automotive window.

Two individuals contained in the processing centre sustained minor accidents.

Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) mentioned: ‘A variety of important witnesses have been spoken to throughout the course of the investigation and a lot of gadgets of curiosity have been recovered, together with digital media gadgets.

‘Proof from analyzing this stuff suggests there was an excessive right-wing motivation behind the assault.’

Andrew Leak is the prime suspect within the incident (

Police mentioned there may be nothing to counsel Mr Leak plotted with anybody else or that there's a menace to most people.

Kent Police discovered a ‘variety of gadgets of curiosity’ when officers searched his residence.

The CTPSE at the moment are investigating the incident after a number of requires it to be thought-about an act of terror by MPs.

Mr Leak’s social media noticed him dwell on how a lot he ‘loves the world’ in the future earlier than tweeting, ‘it’s time to intern all radical Muslims’, the subsequent.

He was an energetic follower of teams campaigning towards migrants crossing the English Channel, in response to an archive of his social media posts compiled by the anti-fascist charity Hope Not Hate.

Whereas his postings usually drew on conspiracy theories, similar to claiming the boats are ‘made in the identical place by the UN’.

Following the ISIS assaults in Paris in 2015, he mentioned in a Twitter video: ‘We’re an island and we’ve been attacked earlier than.

‘It’s time to shut the borders, sink all these boats, let’s type out the robust from the weak.’

In his ultimate tweet one hour earlier than the assault, Mr Leak: ‘We'll obliterate them Muslim youngsters [they] at the moment are our goal.

‘And there [sic] disgusting ladies shall be focused moms and sisters Is burn alive.’

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