US know-how billionaire says Tommy Robinson, who’s serving in 18-month jail sentence, ‘ought to 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 identify is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, “ought to 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 ought to 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 legal 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 happened over a long time in quite a few English cities and cities together with Rochdale, Rotherham and Oldham till they had been uncovered greater than a decade in the past.
Musk shared varied different accounts’ claims across the scandals and criticised Starmer’s response to the scandal.
“Within the UK, severe crimes comparable to rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to cost suspects. Who was the top of the CPS when rape gangs had been allowed to use younger women with out dealing with justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013,” he posted, criticising the present British prime minister.
Starmer was the top of the CPS in that interval and he started a prosecution of a grooming gang in Rochdale throughout his remaining 12 months 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 current declaration of support for Germany’s far-right AfD celebration, the place he claimed that AfD is the one celebration which may “save” Germany because the nation heads in the direction of snap elections subsequent month.
The German authorities has accused him of interfering within the vote.
Musk has additionally overtly 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 outstanding 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.
