British Conservative MP Robert Stewart was charged on Monday with “threatening” behavior and comments, some of which were racist, London’s Metropolitan Police announced, AFP reports. Agerpres.

In a statement, police said they received information online on December 18 from a man who claimed he had been the victim of “racially charged verbal abuse” in the Belgravia area of ​​London four days earlier.

According to the British press, it is about 36-year-old pro-democracy activist Syed Ahmed Alwadai, originally from Bahrain, who says he was tortured in his country.

A video released by the BBC shows Robert ‘Bob’ Stewart, 73, being questioned by a man who accuses him of taking money from Bahrain, to which the MP replies: ‘Go back to Bahrain! You are taking my country’s money, go away!”

Following an investigation, Robert Stewart, MP for Beckenham in south-east London, was charged with “threatening or abusive behavior or racially aggravated speech likely to cause harassment, fear or anxiety”, Scotland said. Yard.

Stewart will have to answer the charges in court on July 5.