For the past week, the country has seen scenes of racist violence following the spread of false information about a knife attack in which three girls aged 6 to 9 were killed.
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on Thursday, August 8, not to “to release” efforts to combat the far-right violence that has rocked the United Kingdom for a week, following a spectacular lull marked by peaceful anti-racist protests. For a week now, the country has seen scenes of racist violence, following the circulation of partly denied information about the profile of the alleged perpetrator of a knife attack in a dance class, in which three girls aged 6 to 9 were killed.
“It is important that we do not relax”the British Prime Minister said, announcing that he would chair a new crisis meeting with senior police officials on Thursday. If Wednesday evening went well “much better than expected”, “we will not give up our efforts”he continued, hammering home his message of firmness, after visiting a mosque in Solihull.
For his part, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, thanked in a message on X those who demonstrated peacefully to show that the capital is “united against racism and Islamophobia”While police feared dozens of new anti-immigration rallies and outbreaks of violence on Wednesday evening, thousands of people demonstrated in several cities to mark their opposition to racism and Islamophobia.
