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TATP

abbreviation for

  1. triacetone triperoxide: a highly unstable explosive, used esp by suicide bombers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It was only after the arena attack, and indeed after Nassrat had been questioned by police for two weeks, that officers found the phone had been used to search for one of the three chemicals needed to make the deadly explosive TATP.

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There are restrictions on the sale of chemicals used to make TATP.

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Counter-terrorism officers are also said to be looking at whether the device was constructed using the homemade explosive triacetone triperoxide or TATP.

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Police said then that they found chemicals in a makeshift laboratory for the manufacture of the explosive triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which has been widely used in bombings in Europe and elsewhere.

Since the 2019 protests, Hong Kong police have arrested several people in connection with alleged bomb plots and manufacture of TATP, including 17 detained that year in raids that also seized explosives and chemicals.

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