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 or other extremists ideologies, but how 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 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 created a biological toxin and put it in a plastic lunch box under the 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 a mental health treatment for four years, but in 2023, a clinician and a “stopped involvement,” said the officials. 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 the British Domestic Security Bureau, said last year that “very young people are drawn to toxic online extremeism” and said, “It's a whimsical range. I had beliefs and ideology.
Earlier this month, Cameron Finigan, another British teenager, was sentenced to prison after being a member of the online demonist group with Neo Nazi links called 764. Or live streaming self -harm, violence, 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 was immersed in the Insel's online community. This is a so -called “unwilling single” that blames 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, “Nothing suits the definition of the current terrorism in the UK, which requires the purpose of promoting political, religious, racial, or ideological causes.
The UK home office, which coaches the director, stated that “the opportunity to intervene has been overlooked,” and Starmer published a survey on “Our anti -extraction system as a whole.” People are wondering what the word “terrorism” means. “
However, proposals that expand the definition of terrorism are controversy. Jonathan Hall, an independent judge of the UK terrorism, warned last week that it would expand the definition, including “violence that intends to be afraid of violence.” 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.
According to a 2024 study of 140 convicted of England and Wales, 57 % of the only attacker had some form of “mental illness, german production, personality disorder”, and the Internet. “I found out that it played an important role in radical routes and attacks. Preparation.”
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. Secretary Ivet Cooper has already concluded to Congress that the review has “emphasized 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.”
