UK authorities have revealed the identity of the suspect of a stabbing attack that killed three young girls and wounded several other children, confirming that the identity used by Islamophobic groups to fuel the anti-Muslim riots was fake.
The suspect was named on Thursday as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, born in the UK to Rwandan parents. Local media reported the suspect comes from a family "heavily involved with the local church."
But the false information spread by far-right groups led to anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant riots even as mobs also clashed with police outside a mosque, the first of several violent riots across the country.
By the time a judge said the teen suspect could be identified, rumours were already rife and far-right influencers had pinned the blame on immigrants and Muslims.
They fucking lied.
https://www.trtworld.com/europe/uk-attack-suspect-not-a-muslim-or-asylum-seeker-as-claimed-by-far-right-18190606