The elected representative of the Conservative Party was stabbed, Friday, while he assured a permanence in his riding, at Leigh-on-Sea, east of London. The police announced the arrest of a suspect and described the crime of “terrorist incident”.
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“I would never have thought possible here, but I guess everyone says that in these circumstances?” Request Melanie Harris, a woman of forty years old. It is 18 hours, on this Friday, October 15, and this resident of Leigh-on-Sea has just come out of work; She went to buy flowers she dropped on a sidewalk, under the police cord, facing the Belfairs Methodist church.
It’s inside this brick building, in the heart of a shopping district apparently without stories, between a municipal golf course and calm boulevards, which MP Sir David Amess, 69, was murdered with knives a few hours earlier, while he started his parliamentary permanence, open to the public.
Vulnerability of members
The murder of this Conservative Party, Veteran of the House of Commons, elected without discontinuous since 1983 in Essex (East London), causes a very strong emotion in the United Kingdom, where Parliament remains the base democracy.
This drama also revives the debate on violence against the policies and vulnerability of deputies, five years after the assassination of the Labor member Jo Cox in comparable circumstances. On June 16, 2016, the 41-year-old woman, just went out of a municipal library, where she had assured her public permanence (in Yorkshire, northern England), when she was stabbed by a supremacist ‘extreme right.
Friday, the Essex police stopped a man of 25 years very quickly after the crime, intervened at noon. Scotland Yard, in the evening, described the crime of “terrorist incident”. To believe the Daily Telegraph, the suspect would be of Somali origin.
Horrified reactions and affection testimonials have flocked all day. “Everyone is shocked and the heart tight,” said Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who welcomed Mr. Amess “a man who thought passionately in his country and in his future”. “This respected parliamentarian was killed in his own riding as he did his duty. It’s a tragic day for our democracy,” lamented the former head of the thereresa may. Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labor, the first opposition party, called the gathering “in response to this horrible event. We will show once again that violence, intimidation and threats will never prevail over our democracy . “” All the elected officials of the political spectrum are united in sadness and shock today, “reacted Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
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