SOURCE DAILY OBSERVER: An Antiguan woman living in the United Kingdom says she’s afraid for her safety amid racially-charged riots sparked by the murders of three children in a knife attack.
Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, died after a knifeman entered a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in Southport, near Liverpool, on July 29. Ten others were seriously injured.
Misinformation that the killer was a Muslim immigrant was quickly spread online. It later emerged that 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana was British-born but the rumours incited riots in several areas of England by far-right protestors who targeted mosques and hotels housing asylum-seekers.
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The tension has created widespread fear and confusion among immigrants and ethnic minorities, including Antiguans like Sherryann Francis.
“I am feeling very anxious because I am not sure where they will attack next,” Francis, who has been living in the UK for 35 years, told the Daily Observer.
“The family is a bit fearful about what they’ve seen on the news and what’s happening so I have to reassure them daily; it’s about checking in and just letting everybody know that I’m okay. I get home from work, and once I’m in, I’m in.”
Francis, who lives in Tottenham, London, said this is the first time she has encountered racial unrest in the UK on such a large scale.
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