Russell Square terror attack: mental health, Spanish victims and an Arab gang
One woman dead. Five others stabbed in what the BBC calls a “London attack”. The dead woman was knifed to death in Russell Square. She was in her 60s. The suspected killer is 19. He has been captured alive. No guns. He was Tasered.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants everyone to be “calm and vigilant”.
The BBC headline states a reason for why it happened: “Metropolitan Police: Mental health ‘factor in knife attack’.”
Not quite. The Met also say it might be a terror attack.
The Mail adds: “A knifeman has gone on the rampage in central London and stabbed to death a woman in her 60s and injured five more people in a potential terror attack.”
But he was alone, right. We know that. No. The Mail adds:
There are fears that the knifeman operated with an accomplice as the Met refused to rule out arresting more suspects. One witness said he saw ‘a man flee on a motorbike’. Others suggested a gang may have been involved.
Suggested. May. Fears. What about facts?
The Star stirs: “Russell Square knife attack: Is second suspect still at large?”
Only two? No more? The paper adds:
A 35-year-old eyewitness told the Daily Star Online that two “Middle Eastern” men were acting suspiciously at the scene after the attack – and one of them sped away on a motorbike…
The eyewitness said: “There were two men of Middle Eastern descent acting suspiciously outside the Imperial Hotel.”
Middle-eastern descent? What an odd description. Are they Arabic looking? Is this, then, the sort of stabbing incident that occurs in Israel?
The Sun has more on the “bloodbath”.
A WOMAN in her 60s has been killed and five others injured in a bloody central London knife attack that police believe may be terror-related.
Unlike the BBC, mental health and a random killing is not the central issue. To the Sun, this is about terror.
A 19-year-old man was arrested at the scene after being tasered by police in Russell Square – just yards from where the 7/7 attacks bus bomb detonated in 2005.
Four women and one man were also injured in the horrific attack in Russell Square.
One witness described seeing another man ‘flee from the scene on a motorbike’ as police confirmed mental health was a likely factor.
They said: “I heard a scream, and then we went to the park and I saw a girl lying on the floor with blood coming from her back. Another girl had blood on her arm.
“They all spoke Spanish so I guess they were a group. I only saw the victim and the girl with the arm stabbed from that group.
“I just saw blood just next to her. She was lying on the floor with a friend hugging her.”
The Guardian disagrees. This is about mental illness:
Knife attack in London’s Russell Square leaves woman dead and five injured – Police say 19-year-old man arrested and mental health a significant factor in the attack.
No. They said it could be a factor. The Guardian and the BBC are setting the story to fit an agenda. The Sun and Star are saying what many wonder when they first hear of such an attack.
No-one panic. No-one mention the war.
Posted: 4th, August 2016 | In: Back pages, Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
