Somalian migrant detained after car ploughs into people in London (VIDEOS)
Five people were injured after a car struck pedestrians, police said
A Somalia-born British man has been detained on suspicion of attempted murder after a car ploughed into pedestrians in London.
Five people suffered non-life-threatening injuries when a car struck shoppers in Ealing Broadway on Saturday. The Metropolitan Police said the driver fled the scene but was apprehended in nearby Grange Park shortly afterward.
“The driver, a 34-year-old Somalia-born British man, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and attempted murder,” a police spokesperson said.
“While investigators are keeping an open mind as to any potential motive, the incident is not being treated as terrorism,” police said.
The incident took place amid intense debate over immigration levels and violent crime involving migrants.
Earlier this month, a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged with attacking a man with a knife on a street in Belfast. The assault, which was caught on camera, sparked riots in the Northern Irish capital. Several days later, a British man of Pakistani descent allegedly stabbed a 17-year-old girl in Brierfield.
A Somalian man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car ploughed into multiple pedestrians in Ealing Broadway, London.
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Anti-racism demonstrations were subsequently held across the UK. In Glasgow, Scotland, anti-racism activists clashed with counterprotesters.
Last week, an assailant injured five people on the streets of Edinburgh in what Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as anti-Muslim attacks. The suspect reportedly said after his arrest that he was “protecting the country” from Muslims.
The rampage came against the backdrop of a report released by Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe detailing how predominantly Pakistani men had raped and abused large numbers of mostly white British girls across nearly half of the UK’s municipalities over several decades.
If the incident took place amid intense debate over immigration levels and violent crime involving migrants, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
What stands out is five people suffered non-life-threatening injuries when a car struck shoppers in Ealing Broadway on Saturday. That is the part worth paying attention to.
So the bottom line is “The driver, a 34-year-old Somalia-born British man, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and attempted murder,” a police spokesperson said. Wonder how this will land.
Basically a Somalia-born British man has been detained on suspicion of attempted murder after a car ploughed into pedestrians in London. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
The detail about “While investigators are keeping an open mind as to any potential motive, the incident is not being treated as terrorism,” police said is something people should sit with.
Reading that “While investigators are keeping an open mind as to any potential motive, the incident is not being treated as terrorism,” police said — hard to argue with the logic there.
Considering “While investigators are keeping an open mind as to any potential motive, the incident is not being treated as terrorism,” police said, it raises some real questions about what happens next.
On one hand “While investigators are keeping an open mind as to any potential motive, the incident is not being treated as terrorism,” police said. But at the same time the incident took place amid intense debate over immigration levels and violent crime involving migrants.
The fact that a Somalia-born British man has been detained on suspicion of attempted murder after a car ploughed into pedestrians in London really puts things into perspective.
Think about it: “The driver, a 34-year-old Somalia-born British man, was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and attempted murder,” a police spokesperson said. That speaks volumes.
So the bottom line is a Somalia-born British man has been detained on suspicion of attempted murder after a car ploughed into pedestrians in London. Wonder how this will land.
The bigger issue here is five people suffered non-life-threatening injuries when a car struck shoppers in Ealing Broadway on Saturday. That changes the calculation.
Still waiting to hear what Grange Park actually plans to do about it.
Reading that the incident took place amid intense debate over immigration levels and violent crime involving migrants — hard to argue with the logic there.
Reading that a Somalia-born British man has been detained on suspicion of attempted murder after a car ploughed into pedestrians in London — hard to argue with the logic there.