Category Archives: Far right racists
Drummer Lee Rigby’s regiment urges members not to participate in ‘self-serving’ demonstrations
The regiment of Drummer Lee Rigby has urged its members not to participate in “self-serving” demonstrations following the soldier’s brutal murder in Woolwich last week.
A number of demonstrations have been held since Drummer Rigby’s death last Wednesday, with members of the English Defence League marching through central London on Monday. EDL members protested outside Downing Street, with protesters heard chanting “Muslim killers off our streets” and “There’s only one Lee Rigby”.
Drummer Rigby’s regiment has now distanced itself from such demonstrations, with regimental secretary Brigadier Ian Liles criticising organisations trying to “exploit” the murder for “a range of self-serving and unhelpful reasons”.
Far-right groups plan day of demonstrations across England
Far-right groups are planning their biggest mobilisation for 30 years this weekend with more than 50 demonstrations planned in towns and cities across England.
Anti-racism campaigners have branded Saturday a “day of hate” after identifying 55 English Defence League (EDL) events as well a BNP march in London.
Conditions imposed on planned BNP march and rally
Conditions to prevent “serious disorder” have been imposed on a march and rally being planned by the British National Party (BNP) this Saturday.
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), using Section 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act 1986, has set conditions that the BNP march and rally must take place between 1pm and 4pm between Old Palace Yard and the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
The BNP had applied to hold the event from Woolwich Barracks, close to where Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in a brutal attack last Wednesday, to the Lewisham Islamic Centre, which Scotland Yard said resulted in a “number of groups indicating they wished to attend to hold counter protests”.
Scotland Yard continued: “The information and intelligence available to the MPS meant that it was necessary to impose the conditions to prevent the demonstration from resulting in serious disorder, serious damage to property, and/or serious disruption to the life of the community.”
EDL supporters exposed in hacked list
A list of more than 200 English Defence League supporters councillor that was published on the internet yesterday after the far-right group’s records were hacked by the activist group Anonymous.
The Daily Telegraph reports that the list of supporters includes teachers, company directors, former and serving soldiers, council officials and small business owners from across Britain. The EDL has international backing, with adherents in the United States, France, Australia, Norway, Belgium, Holland and Canada.
Among listed as financial supporters of the EDL is John Fletcher, a City of London Corporation member for the Portsoken ward. The Telegraph points out that this ward “includes part of Tower Hamlets and Whitechapel. Nearly a third of residents in his ward are Muslim”.
Update: See also “What type of place do EDL donors come from?”, Guardian, 31 May 2013
Edinburgh: Racist messages spark Twitter hate crime probe
Police are investigating reports of racially offensive Twitter messages as they appealed for calm in the wake of the Woolwich terror attack. Officers have moved to reassure faith groups and have made visits to the Capital’s three main mosques at Potterrow, Blackhall and
Annandale Street.
It comes as a number of allegedly racist and offensive tweets made by a user going by the handle @edininfidel were reported to the police. It is understood there were two complaints in response to tweets posted after the Woolwich terror attack on Wednesday last week. Officers confirmed they were investigating the tweets, and said they were monitoring social networking sites.
EDL supporter charged over Facebook threat to make a bomb and massacre Muslims
A man has been charged after allegedly threatening on Facebook to make a bomb and massacre Muslims following the killing of drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich. Tony Perrin, 27, was arrested close to his home in Norbury on Saturday, May 25, after police were made aware of his alleged threats on the social network.
A picture of a man, wearing a balaclava and pointing a gun at the camera, was posted on a Facebook page belonging to ‘Tony Croydon’, the day after the death of Drummer Lee Rigby last week. A message claiming revenge would be taken was also allegedly posted on the page, belonging to Tony Mundy. The page also advocates support for the English Defence League (EDL) movement against Islamic extremism.
Four charged after EDL march on Downing Street
Four men have been charged with various offences after Monday’s English Defence League march on Downing Street.
About 1,000 protesters chanted “Muslim killers off our streets” and “There’s only one Lee Rigby” in tribute to the soldier killed in Woolwich, south-east London, last week. A massive police presence kept them apart from a smaller group of anti-fascist activists, with officers making 13 arrests in total.
Burnley racist graffiti attack is suspected backlash to Woolwich soldier killing
A racist graffiti attack in a back street in Burnley has been condemned by community leaders. And a councillor is in no doubt it was part of a misguided backlash after the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, in Woolwich, last week.
Racist slogans were daubed on a security door, pavements and commercial bin, alongside the initials of the far-right English Defence League and British National Party, behind Cobden Street.
Bristol man shouted racial slurs involving Muslims and Allah
A man has admitted mocking a Muslim prayer ritual and hurling racial insults during a fundraiser for Help for Heroes that sparked a five-hour stand-off with police in St George on the weekend. Lee Cousins, 40, of Soundwell Road, Soundwell pleaded guilty to causing racially/religiously aggravated harassment or alarm following the unrest on Saturday evening.
Magistrates at Bristol heard that Cousins was amongst a group of men who had come out of the St George’s Hall public house in Church Road after initially barricading themselves in when police arrived. Cousins then mocked a Muslim prayer ritual by getting down on his hands and knees in the road before shouting racial slurs involving Muslims and Allah.