(Newswire.net — July 1, 2017) –While tens of thousands of young fans were gathering outside the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, where pop star Justin Bieber was to hold a concert on June 30, police arrested a man with a machete.
Police bundled the ‘machete-wielding’ man to the ground, recovering a foot-long blade, according to the Daily Telegraph.
A spokeswoman for South Wales Police said two men were arrested following a motoring dispute. “Two men, aged 19 and 27, were arrested nearby on Penarth Road. The 27-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of affray and the 19-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of using threatening behavior,” she said.
Both are currently in custody at Cardiff Bay Police Station.
The incident occurred outside the national stadium of Wales, located in Cardiff, where Canadian singer and songwriter Justin Bieber was scheduled to perform before more than 40.000 fans.
According to South Wales Police, there is no suggestion that the incident in Cardiff is a terrorist act or linked to Bieber’s concert, although, according to the Daily Mail, the machete-wielding man shouted he would ‘chop all Muslims up.’
No one was hurt in the incident, but eyewitnesses were scared, kids was everywhere, teenage girls were shouting and screaming, the atmosphere was chaotic and witnesses told media that it was terrifying to think something like this could happen with so many people around, especially in the wake of the recent incident at Ariana Grande’s concert in England.
On May 22, suicide bomber Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old British-born Libyan, killed 22 people and injured 59 others, shortly after 23-year old pop star Ariana Grande had finished her concert in the arena located in the northern English city of Manchester.
That’s why people were even more terrified during the incident in Cardiff, where thousands of young fans were expecting to attend Bieber’s concert as part of his world tour, promoting his fourth studio album Purpose.