Bev Turner
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And as you know, as we've said, there were locals who came and got the guy off and hit him and hit him and hit him with this hurling stick, which is a piece of sports equipment until the police arrived.
They really are heroic.
It appears to be so.
The woman who was filming the footage on her camera was shouting, he's trying to behead him, he's trying to behead him.
And it certainly looked like the action of the knife was slitting at the guy's throat.
Now, why is that so shocking to us, John?
I think it's because we've seen this in Al-Qaeda.
We've seen it with ISIS.
It's the MO of these extremely disturbed, radicalized terrorists.
In this instance, the police are saying they aren't treating it
as terrorism, interestingly.
But of course, we don't know what this guy has witnessed.
We don't know what brutalized, violent setting he's come from.
Millions of people were displaced from Sudan in Africa because of war between the paramilitaries and the government, huge amounts of destabilization, and therefore millions of men from that particular culture have escaped into Europe.
It's a perfect storm, really.
I've talked to you before about the malaise.
We have a million young people in the UK who are not in employment or education.
There is a growing sense of resentment that they have been neglected by the government.
Their opportunities are drying up.
People's jobs are being lost to AI at the most astonishing rates in the UK at the moment.