On October 4, 2019, a 13 -year -old British boy called for a child welfare hotline from his home in Banks, a village in the northwestern part of England, and asked, “What should I do if I want to kill someone?” Ta.
Teenager Axel Ludak Bana said he had begun to have a knife at school because he was bullied. After the hotline counselor was called the police, he told the police that he would use his weapon if he was angry.
This was the first of some warnings about 18 -year -old Ludakbana, and was more and more violent. However, five years after the call, on July 29, last year, he committed one of the worst attacks to children in the recent British history, the theme of Taylaswift in the town Southport near Banks. I killed three girls in the dance class. He is trying to kill the other eight children and two adults trying to protect them.
Last week, Ludakbana was sentenced to life imprisonment in prison and brought a little closure to atrocities that caused anger throughout the United Kingdom. However, in other ways, the calculation has just begun because the government faces the deep questions raised by the attack.
How did he slip through the nets of multiple institutions? Authorities do not serve Muslims and other extremists ideology, but to deal with young people who stick to violence for their own, and access the graphic content and encouragement online. Is it? And the laws created after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, as proposed by the British Prime Minister last week, “it is necessary to change it to recognize this new dangerous threat.”
“Toxic online extreme”
In a police interview, Ludak Bana refused to give a knife attack. The riot, which broke out throughout the United Kingdom, was supported by the wrong claim that it was an Islamic terrorist act that was fucked by an unwritten non -documented immigrant immigrant.
In fact, Ludakbana was a British citizen and was born in Wales as a Christian family in Rwanda. In last week’s ruling, prosecutor Diana Hire stated: He was not fighting for the cause. His only purpose was to kill him. “
Police later found 164,000 documents and images throughout the digital devices, such as corpses, torture, and beheaded images and videos, and showed “long -standing obsession with violence, killing, and slaughter.”
His research was a mixed OTIC dispute, including Nazi Germany, Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and Balkan. He also downloaded an alkai derivative manual including a knife attack method. He made Richin, I stored it in a biological toxin and a plastic lunch box under his bed.
The teacher, who was worried about his interest in violence, reported to him that he would prevent three times when he was 13 and 14. Prevent, which began in 2003, shows the early signs of terroric trends, aiming to identify people who detour from violence before it happens. However, the focus was in the ideology, and after the introduction of Rudakbana, the authorities closed the incident because they seemed to lack ideology motive.
He was diagnosed with autism at 14:00 and became more and more concealed, anxious, and aggressive before the attack. He received Mental health treatment Four years “I stopped engagement” In 2023, the authorities stated in a statement with clinicians. But his lawyer said to his actions, “There is no psychiatric evidence that suggests that mental disorders have contributed.”
Terrorism officials have warned that they have been looking at more individuals with unclear extremists in Amorphus for a while. Ken McCalam, the head of Mi5, the domestic security service in the UK, I said last year “Violent beliefs and ideologies” said that they would be a terrorist, saying, “Very young people are drawn into toxic online extreme.”
Earlier this month, another British teenager, Cameron FiniganAfter being a member of the Online Demonist Group, which has a Neoonaz link called 764, he was sentenced to prison. Public warning by FBI。 This group is threatening other children to shoot and live streaming self -harm, violence, and sexual abuse. 19 -year -old Finigan used the Telegram app to encourage contacts to kill and commit suicide.
In 2021, Jake Davison, a 22 -year -old man, killed his mother in Primus, England, walked around with a shotgun, and killed a 3 -year -old girl, father, and the other two passers -by. He killed himself. Davison is immersed in Insel’s online community -The so -called “unwilling single” that blame women who are recognized as being unable to form a relationship.
Like Ludakbana, Davison had previously been reported to a preventive program. The career advisor, who introduced, interrogated that a future official said that Davison did not meet the intervention standard.
Each case was unique, but all three, the isolated young people could access on a wealth of material online that praised mass murder, and then encouraged or implemented violence in the real world. However, there is nothing to fit properly in Britain today. Definition of terrorismThe purpose of “political, religious, racial, or ideology causes the cause is required.”
The director’s future home office stated that “the opportunity to intervene was overlooked,” and Starmer published a survey on “”.Our counseling Extremist system as a wholeHe said he understood the reason why the word “terrorism” was wondering what it means.
However, proposals that expand the definition of terrorism are controversy. Jonathan Hall, an independent reviewer of the UK terrorist law, warned In an opinion article Last week, expanding the definition to include “violence to fear violence” would be the risk of “too many wrong positives.” He was also worried that it would extend the resources for terrorism. Instead, Hall called for “completely new abilities to deal with people who were motivated by non -documented extreme violence.”
“Mixed, unclear and unstable ideology”
Muslim terrorism is the biggest security threat facing the United Kingdom, and in charge of about 75 % of the M15 terrorism work, the extreme right -wing terrorism is mostly responsible. I mentioned it.
However, Vicky Evans, an advanced coordinator of the British terrorist countermeasures, has a new cohort for those who have hindered the program labeled by Ludakbana’s “Mixed, Unstable ideology”. I acknowledged that I was working. “In our case work, the number of young people with the complex fixation of violence and Gore is increasing, but there is no clear ideology other than its charm,” she said.
Later, for prevention, the “mixed unclear and unstable” category has been divided into several parts, such as insulating and schooling at school. However, this year, nearly one out of five people introduced in March 2024 were simply classified as “conflicts”.
Gina Veil, a crime scholar of Southampton, who is studying teenage criminals, said this trend has grown internationally for several years. “Especially among young people, there is no ideology fault line that is not clearly defined. It is a reality we need to adapt now,” she said.
a 2024 research of 140 convicted terrorists In the United Kingdom and Wales, 57 % of the only attackers have some form of “mental illness, neuropathy, or personality disorders”, and the Internet is “important in preparing for a radical route and attack. I found out that it would play a role. “
Dr. Veil said that teenage terrorist criminals are often socially isolated, and in many cases, “I have a feeling of violence that can be seen in any form -a network. , What is it?
A review of Prevent’s response to Rudakubana will be released within a few days. I already have the Interior Ivet Cooper I told the parliament The review concluded that it was “heavy in the absence of ideology,” without considering the extreme violence.
However, in discussions on whether his attack has been hindered, experts pay the abilities of violence that the small subset of individuals is always terrifying.
Tim squirrel, who is studying violent movement at a strategic dialogue in London’s research institute, states: “We cannot prevent all cases, but we need to see large -scale violence as a problem, not as a terrorism subset.”