The British police conducted searches in the Muslim fitness club Ummah Fitness, located in the east of London in the area of ??Ilford. This is reported by The Times. The searches were conducted as part of an investigation into the terrorist attack in London, when three terrorists attacked people on the London Bridge. As the newspaper writes, in the Ilford fitness club jihadists could be trained.
In Ummah Fitness involved, in particular, two of the three London terrorists: a 27-year-old British-born Pakistani Khuram Butt and a 22-year-old Italian of Moroccan descent, Youssef Zagba. In addition, on one of the records from the outdoor surveillance cameras at the fitness club you can see how Butt and Zagba are actively discussing with their future accomplice 30-year-old Rashid Redwan (a native of either Morocco or Libya).
Moreover, it is reported that the gym was ruled by two brothers Adil and Sajil Shahid, implicated in the terrorist attacks in London in July 2005. Both of them used to be members of the Islamist group "Al-Muhajiroun" Andzhem Chaudari. A close connection with her was also supported by one of the terrorists from the London Bridge - Khuram Butt.
According to The Times, the police received information about the possible preparation of jihadists at the Ilford fitness club in 2015. Even the representatives of the local mosque expressed concern about what was happening in the gym, says The Financial Times.
In addition to searches in Ummah Fitness, in the evening of June 7, during an anti-terrorist raid in Ilford, three people were detained. At least two of them are suspected of preparing terrorist attacks, and the third - in the distribution of drugs.
The terrorist act in London occurred on the night of June 4.
Three men in a van pulled pedestrians on the London Bridge. After that, they proceeded to the nearby Boro market (located about 500 meters from the bridge) and there were attacked with knives on passers-by. As a result of the terrorist attack, eight people were killed, about 50 were injured. Arrived at the scene of the police shot all three attackers. Later, reports emerged that the terrorist group "Islamic State" claimed responsibility for the attack,.
DW.