Elon Musk attacks British government over its handling of gang rape scandal

New stone thrown by Elon Musk into the pond of the British government. “Starmer must go and face charges for his complicity in the worst mass crime in British history”: In a series of incendiary publications posted on -United during the 2010s while he was a prosecutor heading the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

The owner of public inquiry into child abuse in the town of Oldham, preferring to leave the initiative to local authorities. “Who is Jess Phillips’ boss now? Keir Stamer. The real reason she refuses to investigate the gang rapes is that it would obviously lead to blaming Keir Stamer (head of the CPS at the time).”thus criticized the tech billionaire.

Majority of alleged rapists were of Pakistani origin

The billionaire refers to the sprawling scandal known as “pedophile gangs” which shook the United Kingdom at the end of the 2010s. For decades, hundreds of young teenage girls were raped and sexually exploited in several towns in the North of England including Rotheram, Oxford, Bradfort and Rochdale. The majority of the alleged rapists, numbering in the hundreds, were of British-Pakistani origin. These cases, which date back to the early 1990s for the town of Rotherham, only received real media exposure from the early 2010s with the opening of the trial of a pedophile ring in Rochdale.

In the town of Rotherham, Yorkshire alone, at least 1,510 children were victims of rape or physical violence committed by British people mainly of Pakistani origin between 1997 and 2013, according to a 2014 investigation commissioned by the council of city ​​district. A Daily Mirror investigation published in March 2018 estimated that nearly a thousand young girls were victims of these gangs in the town of Telford alone. Subsequently, a comprehensive national survey into British child abuse, released in 2022, reported that in the UK, one in six girls and one in 20 boys are victims of sexual abuse before the age of 16 years old.

This titanic scandal, many elements of which are still emerging, has overwhelmed the police and the child protection services who allegedly failed in their duties, ignoring the multiple reports and filing of complaints from victims. This late media exposure has been singled out, with local and national institutions being accused of stifling the actions of these multiple criminal gangs for fear of being accused of fueling interracial tensions. “When police learned that gangs were approaching children at school gates, they hid the information from parents in case it led to “community tensions”, details on this subject an article from the Telegraph published on January 4 and entitled “How the pedophile gang scandal was covered up”.

“A new election should be held in the United Kingdom”

“In the UK, serious crimes like rape require approval from the Prosecution Service (CPS) before the police can charge suspects. Who was in charge of the CPS when gangs of rapists were able to exploit young girls without having to face justice? Keir Starmerwrote Elon Musk. “A new election should be held in the United Kingdom”he added, also posting: “no justice for serious and violent crimes, but prison for posts on social networks” alongside photos of Keir Starmer. The billionaire received thanks from Nigel Farage, leader of the British Reform Party, who presented him as a “absolute hero” very “useful to our cause”. “I think some of the criticism Elon Musk has made is misjudged and certainly misinformed.”for his part responded Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Protection of the United Kingdom, in an interview given to the BBC, recalling that several investigations had already been carried out into this scandal. The Englishman, however, invited the boss of “roll up your sleeves” about this.

The leader of the British conservative opposition Kemi Badenoch, whose party is trying to contain the rise of Reform UK, the British anti-immigration party that Elon Musk is suspected of wanting to finance, called for the launch of an independent investigation into the “rape gang scandal”. The return of this scandal to the media scene has widely moved across England, the author ofHarry Potter JK Rowling notably demanding accountability. “The details emerging of what rapist gangs… did to the girls of Rotherham are downright horrific. The allegations of possible police corruption in this case are almost beyond belief. the writer protested on X Thursday.

Elon Musk also spoke out in favor of the release of Tommy Robinson, far-right activist and founder of the English Defense League. Robinson was sentenced in late October to 18 months in prison for violating a court injunction prohibiting him from making defamatory accusations against a Syrian refugee. Elon Musk portrayed Tommy Robinson as an activist who denounced this sexual abuse, which sparked reactions of disapproval, including from some figures on the British radical right.