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United Kingdom: Pending his conviction, the murderer of three girls disrupts the hearing
The teenager who killed three little girls in a knife attack at the end of July in England had to be evacuated Thursday from the Liverpool court hall which must determine his sentence, after having disrupted the start of the hearing. Alex Rudakubana, 18 , who arrived around 12:00 pm GMT in court bearing a surgical mask, began to shout once in the accused box. “I have to speak to a doctor. I feel sick,” he said, “he said,” he said, “he said,” he said, ” asking the judge not to “continue”, which led the latter to get him out of the room, where the hearing continues. Heal several media, the accused had to be taken to the hospital to receive care At the start of the day, which was not officially confirmed. The hearing began an hour late. Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty on Monday, to everyone’s surprise, of baby king murders, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Da Silva, 9. They were stabbed on July 29, 2024 in a knife attack which horrified the United Kingdom, and launched violent anti-immigration riots. When he was “happy” that these children were “happy” Died, according to the prosecutor Deanna Heer. He risks a sentence to a heavy prison sentence, but not to incompressible perpetuity because of her age, 17 years in the facts. Adolescent had attacked these little girls and injured ten other During a dance lesson inspired by Star Taylor Swift in the city of Southport. The confessions of Axel Rudakubana, who gave no explanation to his actions, cut short the trial, initially planned to last four weeks. “None of us will never be able to answer this terrible question: why? (…) Why did he do that? Why was he not prevented?”, S ‘Is questioned Andrew Brown, founder of the group of residents Stand Up for Southport, with AFP.- “Solitary wolves” – the media restrictions imposed to ensure a fair trial were lifted on Monday, and the British press revealed The past of this violent boy, almost out of school at 13, living confined and fascinated by mass killings. many missed opportunities to prevent him from taking action also broke out. The adolescent had been reported three times to a prevention program of extremism. Weapons and a training manual of the Jihadist Al-Qaeda organization were found at Axel Rudakubana, who also admitted having produced a poison Extremely toxic, ricin. This attack is not considered as “terrorist”, for lack of having detected an ideology in his home. The conservative opposition, Kemi Badenoch, and the chief of the anti-immigration party Reform UK, Nigel Farage, denounced the government’s “silence” on the profile of the assailant. – Morbid fascination -Axel Rudakubana was born in 2006 in Wales, in a Christian family from Rwanda. Autistic Diagnosed, he had been Excluded from his college after bringing a knife there, but returned to assault his former comrades with a hockey butt. He accused them, according to the Times, of racist harassment. Once out of the classic school system, in full pandemic of COVID-19, the adolescent became more and more isolated. He was fascinated by genocides, and in particular that to Rwanda, during which members of his extended family died, according to the media. Axel Rudakubana had a “sickly interest in death,” said the prosecutor Ursula Doyle, adding that the adolescent had “shown no sign of remorse “This attack sparked a wave of anti-immigration and Islamophobic riots in dozens of cities in England and Northern Ireland, after the online dissemination of rumors by extreme right accounts on the identity of Suspecting for several days, hotels hosting asylum seekers and mosques were targeted. Keir Starmer, elected a few days before, had promised the greatest firmness, and in mid-December, more than 410 people had been sentenced to this violence. CLA/ALM/OAA
