The United Kingdom is in turmoil. In Southampton, 11 officers were injured after clashes broke out in front of a police station during one of the recent protests that degenerated into violence. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described what happened as “shameful, unjustifiable and unacceptable,” lashing out at “the far-right.”
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But the truth is that Britons, and not only them, are fed up with double standards. It all stems from the death of Henry Nowak, an eighteen-year-old stabbed in December on the street in Southampton by Vickrum Digwa, a twenty-three-year-old British man of Indian origin and Sikh faith. A tragic event in itself, but made even more disturbing by images that emerged in recent weeks.
The video shows Henry agonizing while being handcuffed by officers. He is heard repeating multiple times that he has been stabbed and cannot breathe. Nine times, according to reconstructions. Meanwhile, his attacker presents himself as the victim of a racist assault which, subsequently, turns out to be non-existent. Digwa was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday with at least 21 years in prison to serve.
Starmer paid tribute to the boy’s family, praising their dignity and acknowledging that the police have “serious questions to answer.” But although the Labour Prime Minister admitted that something went wrong in the behavior of the police, he does not say that the climate in the United Kingdom comes from afar and is also a consequence of his policies.
The question is simple and terribly delicate: why were the words of a stabbed boy ignored while an accusation of racism, which later turned out to be false, was considered credible?
In Parliament, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage denounced the existence of a system that treats citizens differently based on ethnic origin. Starmer replied by accusing him of exploiting the tragedy. But it’s a fact. Just look at how the case is being handled in Italy: in silence.
Disturbing to say the least, if one considers the inevitable comparison with what happened in 2020 after the death of George Floyd in the United States. At that time, the Black Lives Matter movement immediately became a global cause, and in our country too, demonstrations, media campaigns, institutional stances, and symbolic gestures multiplied.
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On June 8, 2020, Laura Boldrini knelt in the Chamber in memory of Floyd. Myrta Merlino did the same live on TV. In 2021, during the European Football Championships, several athletes from various national teams, including Italy, were essentially forced by media pressure (and political appeals, such as Enrico Letta’s) to do the same.
The initiatives were accompanied by the usual accusations of intrinsic racism against those who instead considered it an anti-Western and anti-white ideological choice, given the tragedy that had occurred.
It was a kind of scarlet letter applied to those who did not want to genuflect against themselves. Today, the silence surrounding the tragedy of the opposite sign demonstrates that it was exactly this: a patricide. Even the few media outlets that talk about it claim that the right is “riding” the protests (Avvenire, HuffPost etc.).
But England clearly shows that something is wrong: Farage reminded Starmer of the existence of new “anti-racist” policies that oblige law enforcement to adopt different actions between whites and blacks, and in recent years the debate on managing accusations of racism and freedom of expression has intertwined with controversial norms such as Section 127 of the Communications Act, which allows for the prosecution of communications considered grossly offensive or knowingly false disseminated online. Many of these concern non-existent accusations of racism or homophobia. In 2023 alone, approximately 12,000 arrests were recorded linked to this legislation, with over a thousand convictions.
Numbers that further fuel the perception, widespread among a part of the British public opinion, of a system increasingly sensitive to certain identity issues. In Italy, we have not yet reached political policing. But the fact that a white boy is falsely accused of racism and that this is enough to turn him from victim to perpetrator at the cost of his life is serious. It carries with it the evidence that in the West there is a secular religion that pursues the accusation of “racism” more seriously even than rape or murder.
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