London terror suspects were known to police
By
Chris Marsden
6 June 2017
Police have named all three murderers whose stabbing frenzy left seven dead and 18 in critical condition Saturday night at London Bridge and Borough Market.
One is Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, the other Rachid Redouane, both from Barking, in east London. In the case of Butt, it has now been admitted that he was known to MI5 and the police.
The third attacker was named on Tuesday in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera as Youssef Zaghba. The Moroccan-born man was stopped by authorities in Bologna last year while attempting to get to Syria. The newspaper reports that Italian intelligence services informed British intelligence of this. Minutes after, the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command unit released Zaghba’s name while claiming he “was not a police or MI5 subject of interest.”
This confirms earlier reports that at least one suspect, Butt, who was previously referred to as “Abs” or “Abu”, a derivative of his Arabic name Abu Zeitoun, was reported to the police, who then protected him from investigation.
On Sunday evening the Guardian reported that Erica Gasparri, who lives in the same flat complex in Barking, said she confronted Butt in a local park two years ago because he was seeking to radicalise young children, including her son. Gasparri took four photographs of Butt and gave them to the police. Their reaction was extraordinary. They “said the information had been passed on to Scotland Yard… They told me to delete the photos for my own safety, which I did, but then I heard nothing.”
A former friend of Butt also said he had contacted police in Barking, telling BBC’s Asian Network he had “phoned the anti-terror hotline.”
The same attacker appeared in a Channel…