Muslim Tourist takes selfie in ‪Brighton‬, arrested on ‪terrorism‬ offences

Some people would argue that taking a selfie should be punished with imprisonment.
And that’s what almost happened to one tourist, who was arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences as he took a selfie video in Brighton.
Kuwaiti tourist Nasser Al-Ansari, 38, was filming a video of himself outside Brighton’s Churchill shopping centre on his mobile phone when he was arrested.
He had been recording a Snapchat message in Arabic, in which he paid his condolences to the victims of a bomb blast in Kuwait last week – which claimed the lives of 27 people.
Mr Al-Ansari was then taken to a car park by police officers, and held on suspicion of terrorism offences for three hours.
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But while Mr Al-Ansari was released after three hours, his phone has been kept by police for further examination.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Detective Chief Inspector Paul Betts from Brighton and Hove CID confirmed that Mr Al-Ansari was released after ‘an assessment was made and there was no immediate threat’.
DCI Betts said.

Good I would rather the Brighton CID not take any chances and act first and answer questions later. Wonder why he was talking about the Kuwaiti victims instead of the Tunisia or French victims?

because hes from kuwait?

Good I would rather the Brighton CID not take any chances and act first and answer questions later. Wonder why he was talking about the Kuwaiti victims instead of the Tunisia or French victims?

No but because protecting the public good when the police have reason to suspect something (could have been a tip off from a member of the public, someone believed he was recording a video before committing an atrocity etc) we don't know the full facts, is a far safer and more creditworthy action than potentially allowing the person in question to wreak havoc. It's 3 hours of his time and I would rather the police intervened than if they did not. Either way, they will attract criticism from the do-gooders but sometimes you have to dissapoint others

If this happened to you , you would have been outraged and claiming power abuse of the police . Seriously he has every right to use his phone and to use snapchat. Whats with the hate?

sigh. He is Kuwaiti.........

Fair enough but why didn't he mention the victims of France and Tunisia? Coulnt he have said his condolences to the Kuwaitis who were blown up before he came on holiday to brighton?

erm maybe he just heard about what happened in Kuwait. I don't know but it isn't illegal to not mention them.

-eye roll at this thread-

If this was a white chap who had been arrested, there would be outrage.

Islamic terrorists are not representative of most Muslims, just like Westboro Baptist church are not representative of Christians.

Good. This what Muslims are bringing on themselves. Better to falsely arrest some idiot than let him blow himself up in a major tourist city.

This is absolutely absurd. Just let the guy take the damn video. If this will be the case, you may as well arrest everyone taking their phones out and taking a picture at that location too.