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Surgeon treating patients in Gaza says police in London ‘harassed’ his family (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

He later told BBC Newsnight that the officers had questioned his wife on why he had travelled to the Palestinian territory, who paid for his ticket and which charity he was helping.

A spokesperson for the Met said: “On 16 October, police officers responding to a report that a man was planning to travel to a war zone attended an address in north London where they spoke with one of the occupants.

“Having identified that the man had left the UK for humanitarian purposes, the officers signposted the occupant to current FCDO advice.”

How is that harassment or an attempt to silence them?

[–] archiotterpup@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They didn't need to question anyone.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I agree. The police have a duty to investigate people travelling to high risk areas, to confirm they're not travelling for some sort of terrorism training only to come back and do something horrid. They were doing their due diligence.

If the doctor had actually gone into detail and described the "harassment", then maybe that would be different, but all we have is him saying "they harassed my family" and the police statement gives the detail.

FYI, you should put > in front of each line to do a quote in Markdown. Lemmy is also different to reddit in that you need to put them in the blank lines to make a continuous quote. Like this:

He later told BBC Newsnight that the officers had questioned his wife on why he had travelled to the Palestinian territory, who paid for his ticket and which charity he was helping.

A spokesperson for the Met said: “On 16 October, police officers responding to a report that a man was planning to travel to a war zone attended an address in north London where they spoke with one of the occupants.

“Having identified that the man had left the UK for humanitarian purposes, the officers signposted the occupant to current FCDO advice.”

If you were just trying to do italics, then you need to do it for each paragraph, I think.

[–] ProIsh@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Hopefully in London it's better but you shouldn't just take the cops word as fact.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Sad to see this for the surgeon.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It doesn't really sound like harassment. They spoke with his wife, she satisfied them it was for humanitarian purposes, they pointed her towards the official advice about travelling to war zones. That sounds like standard procedure.

The doctor himself doesn't provide any detail. He just says they "harassed" his family, but doesn't describe any form of harassment.

Would it be better that police didn't investigate people who take trips overseas to countries with high terrorist activity?

[–] ProIsh@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is that polices role? I thought that was more border security. You think cops are going to find the sneaky terrorists? If he'd have said "I'm going to defend the motherland!!!" then do they arrest him? What charges and jerisdiction were they following here?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Border security work at the border. This sort of thing is exactly the kind of thing that would be delegated to local police.

If he’d have said “I’m going to defend the motherland!!!” then do they arrest him?

If his wife said that (as he is currently in Gaza), they would probably deny him re-entry. There would be no charges for anything, it's just an investigation. As for jurisdiction, they have it.

The UK has previously been the victim of terrorist attacks involving UK residents travelling overseas for training. Hell, there's even a documentary about it, called Four Lions.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In this case its this group of police's role. They're tied up with MI5 and Home Office. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter_Terrorism_Policing

US has something similar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Terrorism_Task_Force

[–] TheLordHumungus@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago

Where is the harassment? Dumbass