US know-how billionaire says Tommy Robinson, who’s serving in 18-month jail sentence, ‘must be freed’.
Elon Musk has known as for the jailed British far-right activist Tommy Robinson to be launched and criticised UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer for his response to grooming scandals when he served because the nation’s chief prosecutor greater than a decade in the past.
In a flurry of posts on social media on Thursday, the US know-how billionaire mentioned that Robinson, who based the far-right English Defence League and whose actual title is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, “must be freed”.
“Why is Tommy Robinson in a solitary confinement jail for telling the reality?” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform he owns, on Thursday.
“He must be freed and those that lined up this travesty ought to take his place in that cell,” he wrote.
Robinson, a one-time soccer hooligan with a string of UK felony convictions, is serving an 18-month jail time period after he admitted contempt of courtroom in a long-running libel case involving a Syrian refugee.
Musk additionally posted a number of messages concerning the grooming scandals which occurred over many years in numerous English cities and cities together with Rochdale, Rotherham and Oldham till they had been uncovered greater than a decade in the past.
Musk shared numerous different accounts’ claims across the scandals and criticised Starmer’s response to the scandal.
“Within the UK, severe crimes corresponding to rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to cost suspects. Who was the pinnacle of the CPS when rape gangs had been allowed to take advantage of younger ladies with out going through justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013,” he posted, criticising the present British prime minister.
Starmer was the pinnacle of the CPS in that interval and he started a prosecution of a grooming gang in Rochdale throughout his closing yr within the position, shortly after the scandal emerged. Not one of the probes into the scandals singled Starmer out for blame or discovered that he tried to dam prosecutions.
In 2012, Starmer blamed the justice system’s flawed strategy to sexual exploitation and ordered a complete restructuring of the CPS’s responses to it.
Musk’s tweets on Robinson have garnered help from far-right figures, together with Dutch politician Geert Wilders, in addition to some right-wing YouTube channels who additionally known as for his launch.
The US tech billionaire’s newest intervention in UK politics comes after his latest declaration of support for Germany’s far-right AfD celebration, the place he claimed that AfD is the one celebration which might “save” Germany because the nation heads in direction of snap elections subsequent month.
The German authorities has accused him of interfering within the vote.
Musk has additionally brazenly backed different far-right figures in Europe together with Nigel Farage of the UK’s Reform celebration and Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Musk was additionally a distinguished funder and supporter of US President-elect Donald Trump’s marketing campaign. Final month, Trump refuted claims that he had “ceded the presidency” to Musk.
