UK anti-terrorism police said Tuesday two men have been charged with national security offences after an incident last month at a British airbase used by the United States, linking the scare to Iran.
Essghir was arrested at the scene in Gloucestershire and then released on bail, before police re-arrested him a week ago. This is the first time that anyone has been charged over the incident, after police arrested seven suspects in the days afterwards, before releasing them on bail.
Police were called to the Royal Air Force’s Fairford base in southwest England in the early hours of September 27 after a local farmer reported a group of men with several white vans engaged in “suspicious” activity. A week ago police said they had re-arrested two of the suspects, one of whom has now been charged. Police charged 24-year-old Nouman Essghir, with entering or approaching a “prohibited place” for a purpose “prejudicial” to the interests of the United Kingdom. The police chief said the charge against Essghir related to “suspected activity” more than a month earlier, on Saturday 22 August, without giving any details.
