By Jaime Ortega.
The Riots
Dozens of supporters of the right-group English Defence League (EDL) congregated a few hours after the murder at Woolwich Arsenal doors chanting anti-Muslim slogans.
Several of them clashed with riot police forces who had to work hard to break up the protest organized through social networks.
“They are cutting the heads of our soldiers: this is Islam,” proclaimed the leader of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson. “This is what we have seen today as they have taken the head off a soldier in the streets of London.” (The news of the alleged beheading circulated online for hours in the absence of an official version by the police.)
“Our next generations are going to teach that Islam is a religion of peace,” added Robinson. “The truth is that it never has been. What we have seen today is Islam, and we have had enough. There has to be a reaction to this incident. The Government has to listen; the police have to listen and understand the anger of the people in Great Britain .”
Clashes between police and ultras lasted much of the night in Woolwich. Riot police blocked the exit of a pub and apparently thwarted the intention of the protesters to attack a local mosque.
Two men were arrested late Thursday in two incidents targeting mosques in the UK. In Braintree (Essex) a man with a knife was arrested inside a temple. The secretary of the mosque, Sikander Saleemy in Channel 4 said that it was probably “a revenge attack” and expressed his fear that “people blame Muslims for what happened in Woolwich”.
In Kent County the police confirmed the arrest of another man accused of “causing damage while racially aggravated” during the attack on a mosque in Canterbury Street.
One of the murderers chanting “Allah is Great after the assault.”
What started the violent riots?
Two Muslim men stabbed to death a British soldier while chanting a Muslim hymn.
The deputy of the area, Nick Raynsford Labour condemned the attack and said that, to his knowledge, one of the attackers filmed the assault and shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is Great”).
‘An eye for an eye’
The two men might have initiated the altercation after running over the soldier. It showed the crashed car seen in some images.
Then they got out of the car and, according to eyewitnesses, approached him, and beat him with a machete while he was on the ground, according to The Telegraph. An udentified witness told LBC radio they came to believe that the attackers were planning to “take out his organs.”
Witnesses said the man was attacked with knives like “a piece of meat”. “These two men were upset,” the man said.
“They were like untrained animals. They dragged him from the sidewalk and dumped his body in the middle of the street and left him there.”
Then the attackers remained in place, waving their knives and a gun, and asking passers byto take his picture, “as if he wanted to be on TV or something,” said James another man who witnessed the attack.
In some images broadcasted by ITV News one of the attackers speaks directly to the camera to explain their motivations.
“We swear by the Almighty Allah we’ll never stop fighting against you. The only reason we did this is because Muslims die everyday. This British soldier is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” argued one of the attackers.
Ingrid Kenneth speaks to the murderers waiting for the police
What a brave witness saw
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, mother of two children and leader of children’s organization Cub Scouts, was on her way to the Parliament Square when she saw the gruesome scene of a soldier being killed in south London.
Ingrid thought at first that it was a traffic related accident and talked with ease with the murderers.
“I could clearly see a body on the road next to the car accident. I have first aid training, so I went to see if I could help,“ Ingrid said. ”I saw a woman sitting next to the man and tried to help by putting something under the back and a jacket under his head. I tried his pulse, but could not find. “
“I could not see his face, but I did not see any evidence to suggest that someone had tried to cut his head. Did not see anything that would identify the victim as a soldier either,” Ingrid said.
“Then I saw a black man with a gun in one hand and a butcher knife in the other. He looked very nervous and I said not to approach the man’s body, “ Ingrid said.
“He looked like a normal person. I could talk to him and he wanted to talk to someone, and that’s what I did. “
‘Furious’ with the British Army
‘There was really nothing at the time. It scared me because he looked drunk, or was under the influence of drugs. It was a normal ‘
Just five minutes Loyau-Kennett Ingrid spoke with one of the murderers, and coolly asked him why he had killed a man … “He told me he had killed because he was a British soldier who had killed women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was furious at what the British Army had done there “.
At that time Ingrid Loyau-Kennett saw a trail of blood on the asphalt, from the lifeless body of the soldier killed. Even so, he was able to continue chatting with the murderer and thought to ask, “I said I was going to start a war in London, and he would try to kill the cops if they came after him. Told him it was only he against many people, and I’d end up missing out if you did that. “
“Then I went to another man, who seemed quiet and shy. I asked what he was doing, and he said he was not going to move on. At that time many people began to surround us, but I did not want to frighten or feel agitated; I kept talking to him to keep him busy.”
“The policemen came, and shot both men in the legs,’” Ingrid said.
