The Metropolitan Police have arrested a woman that officers allege is involved with organising terror over the internet.
The arrest was made in an investigation that also saw a Moroccan arrested in Italy amid accusations that he was running a terror training group on Facebook and may have been planning an attack in Milan.
“Officers from the MPS Counter Terrorism Command have today arrested a 40-year-old woman on suspicion of offences under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000,” the Met said in a statement.
“Her arrest is in connection with an alleged posting of extremist material on the internet. We are liaising with the Italian authorities to establish whether there is any link to an arrest they made earlier this morning.”
Her arrest is in connection with an alleged posting of extremist material on the internet
According to the police, the London arrest was made in the early hours of this morning and police are continuing to search the suspect's home.
The link between the Italian arrest of a 20-year-old man and the London suspect is still being investigated, but police in Italy claim their arrest involves a possible terrorist whose computer contained plans of a Milan synagogue and who had been involved with a suspect website.
The arrest was the "result of monitoring of the internet that we've been doing for a while on a radical Islamic website,” Claudio Galzerano, head of Italy's police anti-terrorism unit, told BBC News.
Galzerano also said the man had operated a secret Facebook group with around a dozen members where posts included "instructions and manuals for explosive devices".
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