A petrol bomb attack on an immigration centre in Britain was motivated by far-right "terrorist ideology", police have said.
Counter-terrorism police said they found evidence on digital devices that there was "an extreme right wing motivation behind the attack".
The suspect is also believed to have had mental health problems.
He was found dead at a petrol station after the attack on the Western Jet Foil centre last Sunday, in which two people were injured.
The government had initially said the attack in Dover, at England's south-eastern tip, was not being treated as a terrorist incident.
But counter-terrorism police said in a statement on Saturday that the threshold for declaring a terrorist incident had now been met.
“Whilst there are strong indications that mental health was likely a factor, I am satisfied that the suspect’s actions were primarily driven by an extremist ideology,” said counter-terrorism co-ordinator Tim Jacques.
“Increasingly in counter terrorism casework, across all ideologies, we are seeing individuals who have mental health concerns and a hateful mindset.”
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