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The American expertise billionaire says Tommy Robinson, who’s serving an 18-month jail sentence, ‘ought to be launched’.
Elon Musk has known as for the discharge of jailed British far-right activist Tommy Robinson and criticized British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer for his response to the scandals when he was the nation’s chief prosecutor greater than a decade in the past.
In a flurry of posts on social media, the US tech billionaire stated on Thursday that Robinson, who based the far-right English Protection League and whose actual identify is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, “have to be freed”.
“Why is Tommy Robinson in solitary confinement for telling the reality?” Musk wrote Thursday on X, the social media platform he owns.
“He have to be launched and those that coated up this travesty should take his place in that cell,” he wrote.
Robinson, a former soccer hooligan with a string of British prison convictions, is serving an 18-month jail sentence after admitting contempt of court docket in a long-running defamation case involving a Syrian refugee.
Musk additionally posted a number of posts in regards to the grooming scandals that occurred in numerous English cities and cities, together with Rochdale, Rotherham and Oldham, for many years till they got here to mild greater than a decade in the past.
Musk shared a number of different accounts’ claims in regards to the scandals and criticized Starmer’s response to the scandal.
“In Britain, critical crimes similar to rape require the approval of the Crown Prosecution Service earlier than police can cost suspects. Who was the top of the CPS when rape gangs had been allowed to use younger ladies with out justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013,” he wrote, criticizing the present British Prime Minister.
Starmer was head of the CPS on the time and he started a prosecution of a grooming gang in Rochdale throughout his last yr within the function, shortly after the scandal got here to mild. Not one of the investigations into the scandals blamed Starmer or discovered that he tried to dam prosecutions.
In 2012, Starmer blamed the authorized system’s flawed method to sexual exploitation and ordered a complete restructuring of the CPS’s responses to it.
Musk’s tweets about Robinson have drawn help from far-right figures, together with Dutch politician Geert Wilders, in addition to some right-wing YouTube channels that additionally known as for his launch.
The US tech billionaire’s newest intervention in British politics comes after his current declaration of help for Germany’s far-right AfD get together, through which he claimed the AfD is the one get together that may ‘save’ Germany because the nation heads in direction of early elections.
The German authorities has accused him of election interference.
Musk has additionally overtly supported different far-right figures in Europe, together with Nigel Farage of the British Reform Get together and Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Musk was additionally a outstanding financier and supporter of newly elected US President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign. Final month, Trump refuted claims that he had “ceded the presidency to Musk.”
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