Police arrested a man outside Buckingham Palace on Tuesday — for throwing what they believe were shotgun cartridges onto the grounds — and carried out a controlled explosion in the area, days before King Charles’s coronation ceremony.
Police say the man approached the palace gates and threw the suspected cartridges before being detained by officers at around 6 p.m. local time.
He was searched, found to be carrying a knife and arrested “on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
The statement said police were not currently treating the matter as related to terrorism.
It also said specialists
