Scotland Yard Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick on Wednesday announced that six individuals, five of them Labour party supporters, had been arrested or interviewed with a warning following an investigation of their Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism on social media.
According to the Daily Mail, four men and one woman were Labour Party members, and another man remains under investigation. They all face charges of “publishing or distributing material likely to stir up racial hatred.”
The Scotland Yard released the following quotes from the suspects’ Facebook comments:
“We shall rid the Jews who are a cancer on us all.”
“Be good, these Jewish [expletive] are the devils.”
“As for the Jews, red see (sic) ideal destination, no need for gas chambers anyway as gas is so expensive and we need it in England.”
Another reference was to “a Zionist extremist MP who hates civilized people, about to get a good kicking.”
Commissioner Dick spoke on LBC radio, and said, “I think actually we’ve now arrested six people, and that was earlier in 2019. We’ve submitted five files to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in September of last year.”
As to the anticipated timeframe of the prosecution of these anti-Semites, the commissioner said: “It’s a very complex crime type, to be honest. So there is a lot for them to look at and a lot for them to consider, as to whether there is either sufficient evidence to charge and whether it is in the public interest so to do. They’ve got the files and we look forward to hearing what they say about them.”
As do we.