{"id":689489,"date":"2026-07-13T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689489\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:40:11","slug":"twelve-arrested-over-threat-to-an-islamic-event-in-suffolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689489\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve arrested over threat to an Islamic event in Suffolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Assistant Chief Constable Alice Scott from Suffolk Police said the force would have visible presence in the Shrubland Hall area in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said 15,000 attendees had &#8220;safely departed&#8221; from the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ruman Muhith, a Labour member of Ipswich Borough Council, attended on Friday and Saturday and said attendees had &#8220;conducted themselves with dignity and respect&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said in a post on X: &#8220;Shocking news that Counter Terrorism Police are investigating a credible, serious threat targeted at an Islamic event in Suffolk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thanks to the quick action taken by police and the organisers, nobody was hurt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My message is clear: I will not tolerate any attacks on our Muslim communities, or any form of anti-Muslim hatred.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assistant Chief Constable Alice Scott from Suffolk Police said the force would have visible presence in the Shrubland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}