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A man was arrested after the discovery of two alleged bombs in a North London apartment.
Scotland Yard announced the discovery of two improvised explosive devices in an apartment in Harlesden on Wednesday morning.
The judicial police announced that a 48-year-old man had been arrested Thursday morning in a residential home in North London.
A spokesman said: "At this early stage of the investigation, detectives do not think that the arrested man has links with terrorist organizations, nor that there are security issues public ".
The improvised explosive devices were removed from the apartment by the police on Wednesday and are currently undergoing a forensic examination.
A forensic tent installed in the driveway of the house Harlesden
The arrested man remains in custody in a police station in South London.
Wednesday, apartments were evacuated after the discovery by two officers of "suspicious devices".
The police were called around 9:30 am on Craven Road, where suspicious items were found in an empty apartment under renovation.
One resident claimed that the police had told her that at least one of the devices was a "homemade bomb".
A forensic tent in front of the house Harlesden Wednesday afternoon
Another resident, Suwan Lekha, who lives in front of the two-story house, said that a police officer had knocked on his door and alerted him of suspicious devices in the morning.
The 50-year-old woman said: "I was at home and a policewoman rang and asked me not to go out and stay away because they had found a suspicious package which was to be the subject of an investigation. "
She added, "I felt safe because there were a lot of police on the road and I'm far from everything, the police are doing a good job."
Ms. Lekha explained that the road was generally calm and that the police had never come to see her because of a road accident. She said she did not hear any noise this morning when the officers arrived, but that she had given him the choice whether she would prefer to stay at her house or leave the premises because the door was going to be closed until she got home. at new order.
Another resident, who only gives her first name Heather, said police officers told her that the device was an "alleged home-made bomb."
Heather, who has been living on the street for 55 years, said the police arrived around 10 am and asked her to stay inside.
She added that she was not too scared of this incident because the police were wearing their regular uniforms without protective gear.
"That was it," she said, "there was no police helicopter, and the cordon was in place only around 2 pm".
Chief Superintendent Simon Rose of the North West Command Unit said, "I would like to thank the people of the region for their patience and understanding as we manage this incident today. Public safety is our highest priority, and I would like to pay tribute to the specialized officers who attended the meeting and were able to recover the aircraft safely.
"I would also like to reassure the local community that we did some pre-emptive searches in the area to make sure there was nothing of a similar nature nearby, which I am pleased to confirm.
"The next step is to determine how and why both devices were installed in this apartment and detectives from the counterterrorism command will lead this mission. I would ask anyone who may have information to help us get in touch with us by calling 0800 789 321 or calling Crimestoppers, which is completely anonymous. "
