A boy and two men have been charged with arson after a petrol bomb attack on a London TV station that is critical of the Iranian regime.
Oisin McGuinness, 21, and Nathan Dunn, 19, both of Watford, and a 16-year-old boy, of north London, have been charged with arson with intent to endanger life.
McGuinness has also been charged with dangerous driving.
All three British nationals will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 17 April.
Officers on patrol in northwest London were alerted at around 8:30pm on Wednesday that an ignited container had been thrown into the premises of Volant Media – which owns UK-based broadcaster Iran International.
Iran International has been repeatedly targeted as the organisation is openly critical of the Iranian government’s regime.
The container landed in a carpark, where the fire immediately put itself out. There were no reported injuries.
Urgent enquiries were carried out and it was established that the suspects had left the area in a black SUV.
A police Armed Response Vehicle (ARV), which was in the area located a vehicle matching this description and began a pursuit.
It later crashed on Ballards Lane, close to the junction with Woodberry Gardens, N12.
A number of buildings near to the premises were evacuated as a precaution, before it was established there was no wider risk.
The attack is not being treated as a terrorist incident but is being investigated by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing London, supported by officers from the North West Command Area.
It has not been linked to the attempted arson attack in Finchley this week or last month’s arson in Golders Green.
