No further action will be taken against a French publisher who was arrested after being stopped at St Pancras station on suspicion of terror offences, the Metropolitan police have said, reports The Guardian.
The 28-year-old man, who was previously named by his employer as Ernest Moret, was stopped by border officers as he arrived at the north London station at about 7.30pm on 17 April.
The man was subsequently arrested on suspicion of wilfully obstructing a Schedule 7 examination (contrary to section 18 of the Terrorism Act 2000). This related to the man not disclosing the pin to his phone when asked to by officers, the force said.
The man was bailed, and later released under investigation.
Moret, who works at Éditions la Fabrique, was on his way to the London Book Fair, which takes place in Olympia over three days from 18-20 April, when officers tried to “determine whether he was engaged in terrorist acts or in possession of material for use in terrorism”, the firm said in April.
Officers said he had taken part in demonstrations in France over Emmanuel Macron, the French president, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, according to a joint statement from Verso Books.
The statement called the actions “outrageous and unjustifiable infringements of basic principles of the freedom of expression and an example of the abuse of anti-terrorism laws”.