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Muhamad Yehia .. Cairo
Police have charged 26-year-old Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc with arson with intent to endanger life, and arrested a third man over the fires.
Police in Britain have charged a second man with arson offences over a series of fires that targeted properties in London linked to Prime Minister Keir Starme
Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 26, from Romford in east London, is accused of arson with intent to endanger life, the Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday. He had been arrested at Luton Airport on Saturday.
The first man to be charged over the fires — 21-year-old Ukrainian national Roman Lavrynovych — appeared in court in London last Friday.
Lavrynovych did not enter a plea at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to three counts of arson with intent to endanger life but denied the charges in a police interview
An unnamed 34-year-old was also arrested on Monday in Chelsea in west London, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life, the Metropolitan Police said. The man, whose nationality has not been disclosed, remains in custody.
The charges and latest arrest relate to three incidents — a fire at Starmer’s private home in Kentish Town, north London, a vehicle fire on the same street, and a blaze at a property where he had previously lived in northwest London.
No injuries were reported from the fires, which occurred on three nights between 8 May and 12 May.
Starmer and his family had moved into the prime minister’s official 10 Downing Street residence in central London after he was elected in July. He recently called the incidents “an attack on all of us, on our democracy and the values we stand for
Although the motives behind the fires have not been made public, security officials in the West have warned that Russian intelligence might be using an array of disruptive tactics, among them disinformation, sabotage and arson against Ukraine’s Western allies.
In November 2024, Richard Moore, the head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6, said Moscow was conducting a “staggeringly reckless” sabotage campaign.
Last month, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy accused Russia of pursuing increasingly hostile policies against the UK and its interests — which he said included “recruiting spies to undertake acts of arson and sabotage on UK soil”.
