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27 police officers were taken to hospital.
In the English city of Southport, near Liverpool, where three girls were killed and several other children were injured in a children’s dance club on Monday, another day of riots with anti-Islamic undertones broke out, the BBC reports.
Several hundred men, believed to be English radical nationalists, began throwing rocks, bottles and other objects at the local mosque and the police who tried to stop them, before setting fire to a police minibus and rubbish bins.
At the beginning of the first hour of the night, the local emergency service announced that 22 policemen were injured and 11 of them were sent to the hospital, and an hour and a half later they announced that 39 policemen were already injured, 27 of them. were taken to hospital, the rest were treated at the scene. The local police themselves specified that nine of their employees suffered serious injuries – fractures, cuts and concussions.
In addition, three police dogs were injured: two had paw injuries from thrown bricks, one had burns. There were no rioters among the ambulance patients.
The police avoided mentioning Islam and Muslims in their statements, but it is clear from the statement of the regional Islamic organization and the general context that the riot was caused by people who decided to arrest the youth on the charge of murder in the children’s club. he was a Muslim and a radical Islamist.
They came to this conclusion based on reports that spread on social networks. The police insist that these reports cannot be believed.
“There has been a lot of speculation and speculation about the status of the 17-year-old, who is currently in police custody, and some people are taking advantage of this to cause disorder on our streets. We have already reported that the man arrested was born in the UK and speculation is not helping anyone now,” said Deputy Chief Constable Alex Goss.
According to the police, the arrested youth was born in the Welsh capital Cardiff and lived in the village of Banks near Southport.
The riots broke out shortly after a funeral service attended by residents of Southport. Police in Merseyside, a region centered on Liverpool, believe the ceremony was used by radical nationalists from among supporters of the anti-Islamic English Defense League (EDL) as a reason to gather and attack the mosque.
Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson, who lives in exile, said on his Telegram channel that the organization has been defunct for ten years. According to open sources, the EDL declined after Robinson’s departure in 2013, but never had formal structures or membership, so it is impossible to say for sure whether it existed or not, and the police also said there were “supporters” who were not members of the organisation.
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The Liverpool Region Mosque Network, via Network X, said the local Muslim community had nothing to do with the Southport child murders.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper also condemned those behind the riots in Southport.
“Those who took advantage of the moment of silence for the victims to engage in violence and banditry have insulted a grieving community,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wrote on Network X, promising that the rioters “will feel the full force of the law. “
Southport is a seaside resort 27 km north of Liverpool. About 94,500 people live in it, and only a little over a thousand of them are Muslims.
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