Uk - Horrific Stabbing & other events

[Ca.]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1821935308578976249

My reaction: Oh my, OK then how about those swing As

UK rioters jailed as more violence expected over the weekend

The government has said it is in a "state of high readiness" to deal with any potential disorder over the next couple of days.

www.euronews.com

The government has said it is in a "state of high readiness" to deal with any potential disorder over the next couple of days.

Courts across the UK are handing down a raft of sentences to those involved in the far-right riots that have gripped parts of England and Northern Ireland this the past week, amid fears of further violence this weekend.

Many cases have already been rushed before judges over the past few days, with the longest sentence handed down so far being three years in prison, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed that rioters would feel the "full force of the law".

The UK government will hope that harsh sentences, delivered swiftly, will deter further disorder as concerns grow that the start of the football season this weekend could spark more riots.

The wave of far-right violence was initially triggered by the killing of three young girls in a mass stabbing at a dance studio in the northwestern English town of Southport on 29 July.

Fuelled by misinformation online, xenophobic groups were quick to blame the UK's Muslim and immigrant communities — an accusation which has since been proven baseless — and began attacking Muslim and foreign-owned businesses all over the country, as well as individuals themselves.

Related:

• Thousands protest against racism across the UK after far-right riots
• Elon Musk and Keir Starmer in online battle as riots grip UK

The anger has since spiralled, whipped up by far-right agitators and even tech billionaire Elon Musk on his social media platform X, over false allegations of media bias and a two-tier policing system.

Things seemed to change on Wednesday evening after police braced for another series of riots but were instead met with thousands of peaceful anti-racism protestors on the streets.


Nevertheless, minister Nick Thomas-Symonds told the BBC on Friday that the government was heading into the weekend "in a state of high readiness", noting the speed at which courts were dealing with offenders and the specialist police officers deployed to quell any unrest.

In a separate interview with Sky News, Thomas-Symonds advised against people attending peaceful anti-riots protests while police forces have been stretched to deal with the crisis.

"Having spoken to police officers yesterday about the strain that they are under, the hours that they are working, I certainly don’t think it helps for politicians to be encouraging even more people out on our streets," he said.

"Nonetheless, we should make that distinction between that tradition of British peaceful protest — which is very much part of our politics –— and the violent thuggery we’ve seen on our streets," he added.

Some of those arrested so far in connection with the riots have been children as young as 11, with one 15-year-old boy admitting to throwing a paving slab at someone's head and a 14-year-old pleading guilty to shooting fireworks at a crowd.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1820770765341364570

 

[EmeraldR]

I have spent quite a bit of time listening to videos of the "right wing" guys talk over the last couple of days and my conclusion is the majority are a) can't defend their position if pressed (they get to a space where they start to contradict themselves) b) just parroting what they are reading on social media c) don't know who they should be hating (Muslims, immigrants, blacks, Asians, asylum seekers... who?) and d) using the situation to socialise amongst themselves and cause chaos for the fun of it (if anyone noted in the videos, a lot were openly drunk last weekend at their riots).

On the other side of the equation, fear is now rising amongst the "non right wing" section of society and serious disruption is being caused in society at the mere mention of a congregation in a certain area.

Putting all these together, the government is getting all the ammo it needs to instill order and because of how things are playing out, the "non right wing" section of society is being put in a position to SUPPORT the government.

So to me it looks like this is a game - the guys on the right are being used to create a situation where certain measures are needed and the guys on the left will provide the support for those measures to be put in place. Both will lose when all the chaos settles down because they'll have to live in the same society with tighter controls where in the next pandemic (and such) we'll all be at the mercy of the government.

What a game.

It seems like the consortium are going for another clamp down / control agenda with more online censorship here and across the pond eg scott ritter, Tulsi Gabbard etc etc -theyre getting desperate and its showing up in quite a few ways... ...

 

[Nathan]

A good little rundown of events, including the UK’s equivalent of the deep site, amusingly called “the blob”:

The Dark Surrealism of the UK's Totalitarian Turn

What is currently happening in the UK is unprecedented.

simplicius76.substack.com

What is currently happening in the UK is unprecedented. Though there’s argument to be made it’s been brewing under the surface for a long time now, the sheer rapidity of the naked totalitarian onset has rarely been witnessed in modern history.

The UK began its long undignified careen down the tubes in the Thatcher years, before Blairism spun the final globalist web over the country, from which it never recovered. Paralleling it in lock-step was the infamous ‘Straussian’ clique in the U.S., which reached the height of its maturity at the same time, like some long-gestating pupa breaking out into its grotesque final form, to begin needling the Middle East with its proboscis.

The national security state controlled Western governments since the post-WWII Gladio years, but it had taken on a renewed rigor during the 2000s, particularly at the juncture of the internet’s age of social awareness and ensuing economic stagnation plaguing the hyper-leveraged Western Ponzi-world. These factors led to the establishment being forced to tighten ship, as populations became increasingly disillusioned amid new waves of mass migration spawned of the very Mid-East instability caused by these policies.

 

[Nathan]

Correction: by deep site, I meant deep state / swamp :)

 

[SOTTREADER]

So not sure what the riots resulted in other than more Orwellian control.

Worth a short listen

Plus this perhaps

 

[PopHistorian]

This X channel focuses on brief videos that capture cultural unrest throughout European cities, including many in the UK, if you'd like to keep a physical eye on what is happening there. It appears that police do little, for various reasons, as we know. Since 2001 "safety" has been the buzzword upon which a swarm of gov't and social controls have descended upon the Western public. It can't possibly be used anymore. What will the next buzzword be?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1821222344716603750

 

[Ca.]

Germany

https://twitter.com/x/status/1827087663561925074

August 23, 202411:14 PM GMT+2Updated 3 min ago

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/several-people-dead-stabbing-incident-western-germany-bild-reports-2024-08-23/

BERLIN, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Several individuals were killed on Friday night when a man stabbed passers-by at random with a knife at a city festival in the western German city of Solingen, newspaper Bild reported.

Bild reported that the event occurred around 9:45 pm local time (1945 GMT).

Witnesses said the perpetrator was at large, the paper added.

Local police said they were not yet able to comment.

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[Bastian]

Germany
BERLIN, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Several individuals were killed on Friday night when a man stabbed passers-by at random with a knife at a city festival in the western German city of Solingen, newspaper Bild reported.

A comment on this knife attack in Solingen (3 dead christian people), found on a Telegram channel, and translated in English :

Listen carefully to the story of last week's knife attack in Solingen, Germany. It's not bad at all.

Once upon a time, there was a Syrian who had a problem.
To avenge the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in occupied Palestine, he woke up one morning and decided to go out and kill people.
Solingen has a synagogue and a large Jewish community.
But the Syrian doesn't go there.
He decides to go to an open-air ball where there are only young Protestants and Catholics.
A place, of course, where there's no chance of running into a Jew.

Anyway, once there, he pulls out a knife and kills 3 innocents and seriously injures half a dozen others.
Before fleeing, of course, he signs. He shouted “Allahou Akbar”, which means “God is great” in Arabic.

The police arrive on the scene and immediately find, as they did on 9/11, his Syrian passport, even though he told the immigration authorities he had no papers.

In short, the main witness to the butchery is a stranger to the general public, who, as usual, has a short memory.

This stranger tells journalists everything, with a well-targeted discourse on the Islamic peril.
He is so insistent in certain interviews that some people remember him.
Incredibly, this stranger has been recognized by Internet users, who claim that he has already testified at other similar crime scenes. Knife attacks.

And the 2nd interesting fact: this stranger is in fact a high-ranking member of the German police force.

The rest you know: the Islamic State (a creation of MOSSAD) claimed responsibility for the attack.

Moral of the story : when Israel has its sensitive data hacked, the Islamic State comes out of the woodwork to avenge the Palestinians. Well, not by killing Jews, but by killing innocent young people who, like at the Bataclan, just wanted to go out and have fun.

It's creepy but interesting.
Great times!

"Funny", isn't it ?

 

[Mari]

Rape reported every hour in London, BBC investigation shows

There were more than 8,800 rape offences reported to the Metropolitan Police in 2023.

www.bbc.com

Rape reported every hour in London​

A rape offence is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC.

More than 8,800 rape incidents were reported to the Metropolitan Police in 2023 - an average of 24 a day.

Charities have called the findings "horrifying" but say the true extent of sexual offending will be far higher.

The Met says it remains determined to tackle sexual violence, is "striving to do better" and that the number of rape charges has more than doubled since 2022.

The data - obtained via Freedom of Information requests to the Met and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) - also shows a further 11,000 reports of other sexual crimes were reported to the force last year, with almost a quarter of all reported crimes from people aged under 18.

The figures represent the number of reports issued from 2018 to 2023, but do not necessarily mean all the crimes happened within that time period.

For example, if someone reported historical sexual abuse in 2023, that would be filed as a 2023 report.

I suspect that these reports are underestimated...

There were two offence datasets: one on reported rape only, and another comprising sexual assault, assault by penetration and attempted rape offences.

From 2018 to 2023, of all these crimes, total reported incidents increased by 14% to almost 20,000.

To put this into context, a report of sexual violence or rape was made to the Met on average every 26 and a half minutes.

London-based Rape Crisis centres, Solace and Nia have called the findings "horrifying" adding that it "clear urgent change is needed".

Amy has waived her right to anonymity.

She says she handed the police a phone with evidence and said the Met returned it after six months.

She said: "I found out that they didn't take any of the evidence off it so they called me again to ask for my phone back to get that evidence but my phone broke so effectively, from that moment on, I knew that the case was going to be dropped because literally all of the evidence was gone.

I highly doubt that they couldn´t retrieve the data; more like laziness and lack of manpower who will do that.

"That moment was a terrible moment in time and put me into absolute paralysis but it was the police that put me on suicide watch.

"Victims already feel that everything is the victim's fault but the police will definitely ensure that you feel that way."

Tirion Havard, professor of gender abuse and policy at London South Bank University, said the figures were "depressing" both because of the extent of the offending and also in that it was "depressing that I'm not surprised".

Prof Havard added the actual problem was far worse than the figures released by the Met indicate.

"It's the tip of the iceberg. This is almost best-case scenario."

1 in 4 victims of reported sexual crimes were under 18 last year​

Rape Crisis says only one in six women who are raped report the crime - that figure is one in five for male victims - while only one in four will report other types of sexual assault.

Additionally, data from the Office for National Statistics shows that in the year ending in March 2022 almost 800,000 females aged 16 and over reported that they were raped or sexually assaulted every year in the UK - that's about one in 30. This figure was 275,000 for male victims.

That´s close to 1 million woman!!!!

Nearly a quarter of all reported victims were 17 or younger. This makes it the second-largest age bracket, behind 18 to 29 years old.

According to the data, more than 4,300 children reported being a victim of rape or sexual assault to the Met in 2023, equating to a report of sexual abuse about every two hours.

Kellie Ann Fitzgerald, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) assistant director for London and the South East, said child sexual offences in London "remain close to record levels".

She also noted the true extent of offending was likely to be much higher.

Ms Fitzgerald believes "it is crucial that the new government overhauls the criminal justice system" to tackle crime backlogs and to fast-track cases involving children.

If you are affected by issues of sexual assault you can contact the BBC Action Line here

Charges for sexual crimes have risen significantly in recent years.

There were 818 charges in 2018, falling to 800 the following year but have steadily risen since then to 1,419 in 2023.

However these figures represent only a small fraction of complaints made.

While the data shows an increase in the number of people reporting such crimes, and an increase in charges, the charity Rape Crisis UK believes "urgent" change is needed.

"We want to see a robust criminal justice system that victims and survivors and the wider public can have faith in."

While the charity acknowledged commitments by the Met and CPS to tackle sexual violence, it said "we are yet to see this impact".

In response to the criticism, the Met told the BBC it was "determined to tackle sexual violence and our teams have transformed the way we investigate rape and sexual offences".

'Survivors need to be believed'​

In 2023, the figure of 1,419 charges made compares to 10,991 reports of rape in London, although the number of prosecutions does not represent the number of alleged crimes committed in a given year. Some of the prosecutions will be from cases reported in 2022 or earlier.

In addition, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says it can only work on cases sent to it by the police.

On average, there were 185 rape convictions per year​

The data obtained from the CPS shows the number of prosecutions and convictions for "rape-flagged cases and cases where the principal offence was sexual offences" from January 2018 to December 2022.

Across this five-year span the CPS recorded 1,527 prosecutions and 925 convictions - a conviction rate of 60.6%.

If we say that some of them are serial offenders, that would mean that potentially about 500 000 sex offenders are still out there?

A spokesperson for the CPS said "more must be done to drive up the overall number of cases charged".

They added that this was why the CPS was "working closely with the police from the earliest stage of an investigation to build strong cases from the outset".

The conviction rate for rape "seriously undermines survivors' confidence in the criminal justice system", according to Rape Crisis.

"Survivors need to be believed and supported; they need to trust that the system will fight for justice."

As of January this year, there were 3,355 rape cases awaiting trial in England and Wales, with an average wait time for defendants on bail of 358 days.

...and what´s the status with the rest of the cases?

But tackling these crimes cannot be done by the police alone, says Cdr Kevin Southworth, lead for public protection at the Met Police.

"Listening to those with lived experience, and working together with charities and partners across the criminal justice system, we’re working to ensure that all victims and survivors get the justice they deserve," he told BBC London.

Reporting a sexual crime can be extremely traumatic and any legal proceedings add extra turmoil, says Prof Havard.

She believes the investigation procedures and cross-examinations into rape cases leave women feeling "virtually strip searched".

"There's a double victimisation. First of all, she's raped and then she's blamed for that rape. Why would anybody want to put themselves through that?"

Combine this with entrenched societal stereotypes and victims feel helpless, she says.

It's not just faith in the system. It's faith in the Metropolitan Police too, says Prof Havard.

In response, the CPS said it was improving its service to victims and that complainants could pre-record their cross-examination by the defence and so not have to give evidence in front of a jury.

In recent years, London has witnessed a number of Met officers convicted of sexual offences, the most high profile of which was the rape and murder of Sarah Everard in 2021 by off-duty constable Wayne Couzens.

On the third anniversary of the attack, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said it would "take years" to repair damage to trust in the police.

Since then, there have been further high profile cases involving Met officers.

In February of last year, David Carrick admitted to dozens of rapes and sexual offences against 12 women.

Meanwhile in May, another former police officer, Cliff Mitchell, was jailed for 10 counts of rape, including three of raping a child under the age of 13.

'Striving to do better'​

Det Ch Supt Angela Craggs said: “We know reporting a sexual offence to police can be difficult and we have worked hard in recent years to improve and support those who take this step.

"Significant progress has been made in relation to digital forensics, including obtaining evidence from mobile devices when someone reports an offence, to ensure this is as unobtrusive an experience as possible.

"In most cases we try and ensure a mobile device is returned within 24 hours and ensure our evidence gathering is targeted to extract only relevant information.

"We have also invested £11m in our technology and staff to speed us this process and minimise the impact on victims.

"We are always striving to do better and know that listening to and understanding the experiences of those who report sexual offences to us is a key part of this process."

Interestingly, among all this data, the article didn´t provide an information on the profile of the most common offenders.
And I wonder what will happen now that they released all those prisoners from the jail to make space for people who write forbidden Tweets....

 

[T.C.]

My wife, @KSee, was talking to someone she works with. They had a good friend who went along to one of the anti-immigration protests at a hotel where immigrants were being housed by the government here in the U.K. The man was later identified by police, arrested, and sentenced to 2.5yrs in prison.

During the short time he was imprisoned, he was stabbed by other inmates on two separate occasions. Unable to face this kind of life for foreseeable future, he decided to hang himself.

 

[Arwenn]

Some crazy stuff going on in the UK- I’ve seen posts where people have been arrested or jailed for Facebook posts, for carrying the UK flag at Palestine protests or praying silently in front of an abortion clinic. I know this is off topic, but Starmer has also recently introduced an inheritance tax (not sure if it is just for farmers or everyone). Here are some of the posts I see regarding the above:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1847334862312595928

https://twitter.com/x/status/1836322109934407779

https://twitter.com/x/status/1850657327663423552

https://twitter.com/x/status/1852055515611676678

https://twitter.com/x/status/1852419256232636518