In the event of further riots, specified as those that have been passing through British cities for six days, an army of specialised police officers is on the alert," said Keir Starmer on Monday following the gathering of the government's emergency council. In this way, the Prime Minister commented on the wave of protests caused by citizens who were warmly fed up by the government's passiveness over illegal immigrants, 1 of whom murdered 3 children.
Starmer, alternatively of commenting on the problem of crime for which immigrants are responsible, reported that criminal justice work will be accelerated and operating hours extended by courts to which the participants of the riots go. He besides stressed that anyone who fuels online aggression would be treated as harshly as those who do so in the real world.
During the riots that broke out after being stabbed a week ago in Southport close Liverpool 3 several-year-old girls by Rwandan roots of 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, over 400 people have already been arrested. Protests, which gather mostly supporters of the far right, are anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic, which is related to the false reports that the perpetrator was a Muslim asylum seeker.
During the past weekend, protests which in most cases turned into street brawls occurred in Liverpool, Bristol, Nottingham, Leeds, Stoke-on-Trent, Blackpool, Rotherham, Middlesbrough, Hull, Bolton and Belfast.
– We'll have an army of specialized officers ready so we can have adequate of them to deal with it. said Starmer. – Regardless of the alleged motivation, this is not a protest – it is pure force and we will not tolerate attacks on mosques or our Muslim communities – he added.
He rejected the allegation, raised, among others, by the UK improvement Party, that police and the justice strategy treat the protests of the right more harshly, while force from the far left is tolerated. – There are no police on 2 levels. There are police without fear and favoritism, precisely as it should be. Just as I expected and required. So there's no specified thing – he argued.
The British Prime Minister stressed that "the law applies online". – So if you incite violence, it doesn't substance whether it's online or offline. Therefore, as in the case of persons straight active (in brawls) in the streets, I anticipate arrests, charges and prosecutions. Similarly, anyone who has been found guilty of online crime can anticipate the same reaction – he said.
Starmer's spokesperson later criticised in peculiar Elon Musk, billionaire and owner of the X platform, who wrote that after the riots in the UK, "the civilian war is inevitable." – There is no excuse for specified comments. Anyone who incites online force will gotta face full force of law. net platforms are responsible said the spokesman.
Source: PAP / Bartłomiej Niedziński, London
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