The United States Federal Police (FBI) released a report this week revealing a possible plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II of England during an official visit to the United States in 1983, the international press reported Friday.
According to the document, a San Francisco, California, police officer contacted the FBI to tell him that he had met a man in an Irish pub who, on several occasions, mentioned the possibility of taking the law into his own hands and life of the monarch British in revenge for the death of her daughter.
This source explained that about a month before the visit of the Queen and her husband Prince Philip to California, the suspect claimed that his daughter was “killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet,” the British reported on Friday. public broadcaster BBC.
At the time, Northern Ireland was the scene of conflict between supporters of the island’s reunification and those loyal to London (nationalists and trade unionists).
“He would try to attack Queen Elizabeth II and he would do so by throwing an object from the Golden Gate Bridge onto the royal yacht Britannia as it passed underneath, or he would try to kill the Queen when she visited Yosemite National Park, ” explained the source, according to the FBI report.
For this reason, access to the bridge was prohibited as the royal nave approached.
The security measures taken in Yosemite were not mentioned in the report.
The nearly 100-page document was released this week on Vault, the FBI’s portal, following a request from various media outlets under the Freedom of Information Act.
It wasn’t the first time the FBI had raised concerns about the safety of the then British monarch during official visits to the United States. The same thing happened in New York in 1976 and in 1989, before Elizabeth II traveled to Kentucky.
Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8 last year, at the age of 96 and after 70 years of reign.
Source: DN
