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World How false claims about a mass stabbing led to a riot in the U.K.
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Police charged a 17-year-old boy with murder and attempted murder, but didn’t explain any motive for the attack, which left three little girls dead and seven people in critical condition.

By Tuesday night, violent protests had erupted in the streets. Rioters chanting “we want our country back” threw anything they could find at police, who had only helmets, batons and plastic shields to protect themselves. The rioters smashed the windows of a mosque and looted a shop. They set fire to trash cans, tires and a police van, which burned for hours, filling the skies with black smoke.


The former de facto leader of the EDL, Tommy Robinson, issued denials on social media, writing, “There’s has been no EDL for over a decade.” But in a video seen more than 3 million times since he posted it on Tuesday around 9 p.m., he argued that “anger is justified” in Southport, because the British authorities have “opened our borders,” resulting in “children being butchered and murdered.”

“You care more for Afghanis, Somalis, Eritreans, Syrians, Pakistanis,” he shouted, red-faced. “They’re a danger to us.”

Rumors we're spread that the killer shouted "Allah Akbar" and was an Arab refugee all over social media and this was another "Islamist" attack.

This confusion and misinformation led to mosques being attacked
 
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Merseyside Police confirmed that a 17-year-old boy, from the village of Banks, about 8km away from Southport, had been arrested and was being questioned on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

The youth, they havent named for legal reasons and is originally from Cardiff, in Wales, moved to the Southport area with his Rwandan Parents when he was 6.

 

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