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Ignore hoax WhatsApps following London terror attacks, say Spanish police
23/03/2017
POLICE in Spain have warned of yet another spate of hoaxes going round social networks following yesterday's terrorist attack in Westminster, London, and warns the public not to pass them on.
One claims Spain has decided to up its terrorism risk level from 4 to the maximum of 5, which would normally mean armed forces and even tanks on the streets at every corner and a nightly curfew, whilst another even claims to show the map coordinates of an 'imminent attack in London', dated Tuesday.
In the second case, police say the messaging service in question allows users to change the date, so the alert almost certainly started after the massacre.
And the terrorism risk level has remained at 4 since summer 2015, with no plans to change it.
One message, warning of simultaneous attacks planned 'within the next 24 hours' in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia pops up in identical format every time anywhere in the world suffers a major terrorism incident, police say.
“We've said it a thousand and one times. And we'll say it as many times as we need to: this hoax message still goes around every time there's an attack...and today [for last night] it's going even stronger. It's FALSE. STOP hoaxes,” tweeted the National Police.
They say any serious announcement would be made by the interior ministry and communicated to the national media, authorities, emergency services and armed forces, and they would pass the information on to the public – it would never be sent out via WhatsApp.
And in the event of an imminent attack known to Intelligence services, it is unlikely details would be revealed as this would prevent their stepping in to stop it or prevent deaths and injuries.
The latest news on the attack is that the terrorist is British by birth, and had been investigated by the MI5 in the past 'in relation to concerns about violent extremism'.
An eighth individual has been arrested – not including the actual author of the attack, who was shot dead by police in front of the Houses of Parliament – but details of their roles and identities have not been given out.
Among the injured are 12 Brits, three French, two Romanians, four South Koreans, a Chinese national, an Irish citizen, an Italian and two Greeks.
Prime minister Theresa May announced earlier this afternoon that the author 'acted alone' and was a 'peripheral' figure, adding that she had a 'simple' message to ISIS: “We are not afraid.”
The photograph shows the entrance to Whitehall Road, near Parliament, which remains cordoned off 24 hours after the attack.
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POLICE in Spain have warned of yet another spate of hoaxes going round social networks following yesterday's terrorist attack in Westminster, London, and warns the public not to pass them on.
One claims Spain has decided to up its terrorism risk level from 4 to the maximum of 5, which would normally mean armed forces and even tanks on the streets at every corner and a nightly curfew, whilst another even claims to show the map coordinates of an 'imminent attack in London', dated Tuesday.
In the second case, police say the messaging service in question allows users to change the date, so the alert almost certainly started after the massacre.
And the terrorism risk level has remained at 4 since summer 2015, with no plans to change it.
One message, warning of simultaneous attacks planned 'within the next 24 hours' in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia pops up in identical format every time anywhere in the world suffers a major terrorism incident, police say.
“We've said it a thousand and one times. And we'll say it as many times as we need to: this hoax message still goes around every time there's an attack...and today [for last night] it's going even stronger. It's FALSE. STOP hoaxes,” tweeted the National Police.
They say any serious announcement would be made by the interior ministry and communicated to the national media, authorities, emergency services and armed forces, and they would pass the information on to the public – it would never be sent out via WhatsApp.
And in the event of an imminent attack known to Intelligence services, it is unlikely details would be revealed as this would prevent their stepping in to stop it or prevent deaths and injuries.
The latest news on the attack is that the terrorist is British by birth, and had been investigated by the MI5 in the past 'in relation to concerns about violent extremism'.
An eighth individual has been arrested – not including the actual author of the attack, who was shot dead by police in front of the Houses of Parliament – but details of their roles and identities have not been given out.
Among the injured are 12 Brits, three French, two Romanians, four South Koreans, a Chinese national, an Irish citizen, an Italian and two Greeks.
Prime minister Theresa May announced earlier this afternoon that the author 'acted alone' and was a 'peripheral' figure, adding that she had a 'simple' message to ISIS: “We are not afraid.”
The photograph shows the entrance to Whitehall Road, near Parliament, which remains cordoned off 24 hours after the attack.
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