{"id":44600,"date":"2019-10-02T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44600"},"modified":"2019-10-02T09:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T01:26:30","slug":"uk-man-held-outside-parliament-in-petrol-incident-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44600","title":{"rendered":"UK: Man held outside parliament in \u2018petrol\u2019 incident – police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LONDON, Oct 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — London police said they detained a man who was dousing himself with what appeared to be a
flammable liquid outside parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe man, who had a lighter, was sprayed with a fire extinguisher,\u201d the
Metropolitan Police said in a statement. \u201cThere was no ignition and the man
was detained.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The man was assessed by ambulance workers and taken to hospital. His age or condition were not immediately released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One lawmaker who was at the scene tweeted the substance \u201csmells like
petrol\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huw Merriman, the Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle, who witnessed the incident, tweeted his praise for the police who he said had responded bravely and quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wrote: “Man next to me at Parliament\u2019s carriage gates appears to have poured (what smells like) petrol on himself. Incredibly brave response from police, who are now helping him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

London Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service raced to the scene and the man was sprayed down with a fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was detained under the Mental Health Act and it is understood the protest was not politically motivated, with one officer at the scene claiming he had been complaining about a parking ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident came against a background of heightened tension over Britain\u2019s imminent departure from the European Union, which has divided the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MPs are currently debating ways to make sure Britain does not crash out of
the EU without a negotiated agreement on its October 31 departure date. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON, Oct 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — London police said they detained a man who was dousing himself with what appeared to be aflammable liquid outside parliament. \u201cThe man, who had a lighter, was sprayed with a fire extinguisher,\u201d theMetropolitan Police said in a statement. \u201cThere was no ignition and the manwas detained.\u201d The man was assessed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}