LONDON: British authorities have foiled 22 attacks since March 2017, three more than previously reported, Scotland Yard's most senior counter-terrorism officer said on Monday .
"Prevent is designed to break the cycle of extremist violence by empowering communities and individuals - to make them resilient to radicalisers and able to spot the vulnerable that radicalisers target and manipulate," Basu said. In March 2017, in an attack police said was motivated by Islamist extremism, a man drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London and then fatally stabbed a police officer. Later that year, there were three other attacks police described as terrorism, including one on Muslim worshippers near a London mosque.Potential threats that most concern British officers include returning foreign fighters, lone actors, mentally ill people and a"rising threat" of right-wing terrorism.
"Christchurch is the most recent example," Basu said."Seven of the 22 attacks we have stopped since March 2017 relate to suspected RWT ," Basu said.
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