Leonard and others' actions in the evening triggered a series of consequences, such as early the next morning, several police cars arrived at the excavation site, followed by the leader of the police team meeting with Leonard and a few other archaeologists in charge of the site.
"—Are you saying that there are terrorists accusing us of preparing for an attack, so you need to conduct a search here?" Chairman Charles, who happened to be here today, said angrily as a representative of the scholars.
"You're actually going to search us and interrogate our personnel just based on a terrorist's word, which is a great humiliation, and I protest!"
"I'm very sorry, Your Excellency Chairman Charles, but we must do this, considering the serious threat posed by these terrorists found in Istanbul, so we must do something."
"Of course, we also understand that this group of people are unreliable terrorists, so next it will be just a routine inquiry, and it will take place right here."
