Counter-terrorism officers said that Jihad al-Shamie pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a phone call to police during last week’s synagogue attack, British police revealed in a statement Wednesday.
At the outset of last Thursday’s attack outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Yom Kippur, the assailant called police and “claimed to pledge allegiance to the so-called Islamic State,” according to a statement from Counter Terrorism Policing North West.
Police said the call was made after al-Shamie first approached the Heaton Park synagogue, where worshippers and volunteer guards told him to leave. He then returned in a car, driving into pedestrians before getting out and continuing the assault with a knife.
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