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Canadian Foils U.K. School Attack Plan After Web Post
By Thomas Penny and Frederic Tomesco
March 20 (Bloomberg) -- A potential arson attack on a school in England was foiled after a student in Canada spotted threats posted on an Internet chat room and called police.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested at Attleborough High School in Norfolk, eastern England, on March 17 and found to be carrying a knife, matches and a canister of what is believed to be a flammable liquid, Norfolk Constabulary said in an e-mailed statement.
Police were alerted by John Philip Neufeld, a student at Montreal’s Concordia University, who had seen the threats on a Web site, a police spokeswoman said in a telephone interview.
The message said the school would be attacked “with arson and other forms of violence” at 11:30 a.m. and would “go down in flames,” said the Eastern Daily Press newspaper, published in the Norfolk area. Police were at the school at the appointed time to make the arrest.
Neufeld, a 21-year-old native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, who studies electro-acoustics at Concordia, acts as a moderator for newgrounds.com, a U.S. media-sharing site. He said he spends an average of four hours a day online.
“I was surfing at home while eating breakfast, trying to stay awake, when I saw the online news post,” Neufeld said today in a telephone interview. “Right away I thought of the school shooting in Germany and figured I better call the police.”
By Thomas Penny and Frederic Tomesco
March 20 (Bloomberg) -- A potential arson attack on a school in England was foiled after a student in Canada spotted threats posted on an Internet chat room and called police.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested at Attleborough High School in Norfolk, eastern England, on March 17 and found to be carrying a knife, matches and a canister of what is believed to be a flammable liquid, Norfolk Constabulary said in an e-mailed statement.
Police were alerted by John Philip Neufeld, a student at Montreal’s Concordia University, who had seen the threats on a Web site, a police spokeswoman said in a telephone interview.
The message said the school would be attacked “with arson and other forms of violence” at 11:30 a.m. and would “go down in flames,” said the Eastern Daily Press newspaper, published in the Norfolk area. Police were at the school at the appointed time to make the arrest.
Neufeld, a 21-year-old native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, who studies electro-acoustics at Concordia, acts as a moderator for newgrounds.com, a U.S. media-sharing site. He said he spends an average of four hours a day online.
“I was surfing at home while eating breakfast, trying to stay awake, when I saw the online news post,” Neufeld said today in a telephone interview. “Right away I thought of the school shooting in Germany and figured I better call the police.”
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