The name Svílmína is associated with apartments at two addresses in Liverpool, where the police carried out house searches.
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The police did not officially provide any further information about the suspect. But The Daily Mail reported that Imad Jamil Svilmin was a Syrian asylum seeker who had lived in Iraq for most of his life and came to Britain years ago. In Britain, he adopted the name Enzo Almeni to increase his chances of asylum proceedings and allegedly converted to Christianity in 2017. According to the Daily Mail, he underwent psychiatric treatment around 2014 after being detained in Liverpool with a knife.
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Shortly after a home-made bomb exploded on a taxi on Sunday, his driver ran out and locked the attacker with a bomb in the car. The presence of the taxi driver David Perry almost lost his life has already been appreciated by the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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However, the motive for the attack remains unclear. “Although we still have to understand the motivation for this incident, it has been declared a terrorism case in all circumstances,” Russ Jackson, the head of the anti-terrorist police in the North West of England, said of Sunday’s explosion. According to the AP agency, he explained that the investigation will now continue, the aim of which is to find out how the explosive device was built, what the motive was and whether someone else was involved.
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It was previously known that a taxi passenger had died in an explosion and his driver had been injured and that three men between the ages of 21 and 29 had been detained under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Jackson said Monday that a fourth man was arrested.
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According to the Daily Mail, detectives are working on a version that the bomb was brought into the car by a passenger and the device failed to detonate properly.
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The original target of the attack was supposed to be the Anglican Cathedral, where a commemorative event for War Veterans Day took place. However, due to traffic closures in the city, the alleged terrorist eventually asked to be dropped off in front of the hospital.
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