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Agence France-Presse

Police on Tuesday questioned a man suspected of deliberately mowing down Muslims in London, as the interior minister said Britain was “bruised but not broken” by a series of terror attacks.
Britain was coming to terms with the aftermath of its fourth bloody assault in three months following Monday’s van attack on worshippers leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London.
The string of attacks had “bruised but not broken the heart of this great nation”, Home Secretary Amber Rudd said.
The family of Darren Osborne, the man suspected of deliberately driving into the Muslim group, said he was “troubled”, describing his action as “sheer madness”.
Osborne, 47, a father of four from Cardiff, was arrested.

Police believe the suspect acted alone and searches were being conducted at a residential address in the Welsh capital.
Police are treating the incident as a terror attack and British Prime Minister Theresa May described it as “sickening”, vowing Monday to fight extremism in all its forms.
The attack raised fears of retaliation against Muslims after a series of deadly assaults in Britain by Islamist extremists.

pic.twitter.com/Cm1SLMzfm3 #Footage shows moment the suspect in the #FinsburyPark attack was #arrested by police https://t.co/sv7aVIbOA0
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One man who was already receiving first aid at the time died following the assault, while nine people were taken to hospital and two others were treated for minor injuries.
British media reported that Osborne was born in Singapore and raised in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, where he attended Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College.
Osborne’s mother, 72-year-old Christine desribed him as a “complex” person, ITV News reported.
She told The Guardian: “I’m sorry, I’m not talking to reporters. He is my son, if that’s what you want to know. You should talk to his partner, Sarah, the mother of his four children.”

In a statement on behalf of his family, his nephew Ellis Osborne, 26, said: “We are massively shocked.
“Our hearts go out to the people who have been injured.”
His uncle was “not a racist”, he said. “It’s madness. It is obviously sheer madness.”
One neighbour said Osborne could often be seen in the street arguing with his wife.
Other neighbours said that over the weekend, Osborne had called a 12-year-old Muslim neighbour an “inbred” and had been thrown out of a local pub for getting drunk, “cursing Muslims and saying he would do some damage”.
Watch: recap of London van attack incident


Londoners bearing flowers and messages of solidarity gathered late Monday at the scene of the attack, some carrying signs reading “United Against All Terror”.
Another vigil is planned for Tuesday.
The van driver was pinned down by locals before being shielded from retaliatory violence by an imam and detained by police.
The man suspected of driving the van was arrested on suspicion of “the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism including murder and attempted murder”, police said.
London police chief Cressida Dick said the incident was “quite clearly an attack on Muslims” and promised a stepped-up police presence near mosques as the holy month of Ramadan draws to a close.
Rudd said Muslims needed to feel safe in Britain and the government was working to tackle all forms of hate crime and extremism.

“Indicative figures suggest that over half of those who experience hate because of their religion are Muslim. Any hate crime is unacceptable but this stark figure is something we will not shy away from,” she wrote in The Guardian newspaper.
“We stand with the Muslim community -- you are not alone, we share your pain and we will not let you down.”
One victim of Monday’s attack has no memory of what happened, according to a nephew who did not wish to be identified.
“He is bleeding out of his ear, but in general his health was stable,” he said after visiting his uncle Hamza Sharif in hospital.
“He has a fracture in his skull -- but they still don’t know why the bleeding from his ear is not stopping yet,” the Somali-born man said.
Sharif “does not remember anything” of the attack and kept asking “what was wrong”.
The three previous terror attacks in recent months were all Islamist-inspired.
A car and knife attack on March 22 in London killed four pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and a police officer guarding the British parliament.
Two months later, on May 22, 22 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a pop concert in the northern city of Manchester.
On June 3, eight people were killed in a van and knife attack on London Bridge and nearby Borough Market.
Additional reporting by The Guardian

Family of London van terror suspect Darren Osborne devastated at ‘madness’ of attack on Muslims

Darren Osborne, named by British media as the driver of the van in the Finsbury Park incident. Photo: Facebook

A man looks at messages and tributes left near to where a van was driven at Muslims in Finsbury Park, North London, Britain, June 19, 2017. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Police officers stand outside the home of Darren Osborne, in Cardiff, Wales June 20, 2017. Osborne has been named by British media as the man suspected of driving a rented van into Muslim worshippers after they left prayers at a north London mosque. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden

Police officers put a man in the back of a police van after a vehicle collided with pedestrians in the Finsbury Park neighbourhood of North London, Britain June 19, 2017, in this still image from video obtained from social media. Facebook via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

British PM condemns ‘sickening’ attack as van rams Muslim worshippers

Britain's Prime Minister, Theresa May, speaks outside 10 Downing Street, following the attack at Finsbury Park Mosque. Photo: Reuters

epa06036622 (FILE) - A police officer stands in front of Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, Britain, 20 January 2003. According to the Metropolitan Police Service, police responded on 19 June 2017, to reports of a major incident where a vehicle collided with pedestrians in Seven Sisters Road, in north London. One man was pronounced dead at the scene and at least eight people were injured, police said. The driver of the van, a 48-year-old man, has been detained. An investigation into the circumstances of the incident is being carried out by the Counter Terrorism Command. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) commented on the incident saying that a van has run over worshippers outside the Muslim Welfare House (MWH), near the Finsbury Park Mosque. British Prime Minister Theresa May described the attack as a 'terrible incident.' EPA/NICOLAS ASFOURI

TOPSHOT - A forensic tent is erected at the scene in Finsbury Park area of north London after a vehichle hit pedestrians, on June 19, 2017. A van ploughed into pedestrians near a London mosque in early Monday, killing one man and injuring eight other people in what Prime Minister Theresa May said was "a potential terrorist attack". / AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS

Local residents react at the scene in Finsbury Park area of north London after a vehichle hit pedestrians, on June 19, 2017. A van ploughed into pedestrians near a London mosque in early Monday, killing one man and injuring eight other people in what Prime Minister Theresa May said was "a potential terrorist attack". / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN

Police patrol outside Finsbury Park station in north London after a vehichle hit pedestrians, on June 19, 2017. A van ploughed into pedestrians near a London mosque in early Monday, killing one man and injuring eight other people in what Prime Minister Theresa May said was "a potential terrorist attack". / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN

Forensic officers work at the scene in Finsbury Park area of north London after a vehichle hit pedestrians, on June 19, 2017. A van ploughed into pedestrians near a London mosque in early Monday, killing one man and injuring eight other people in what Prime Minister Theresa May said was "a potential terrorist attack". / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN

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British media report that some of Osborne’s neighbours have described the father of four as aggressive


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British media report that some of Osborne’s neighbours have described the father of four as aggressive