(ANSA) - LONDON, OCTOBER 15 - The second British deputy killed in 5 years.
It is the fate that happened today to Sir David Amess, a veteran of the Conservative Party, stabbed to death in Essex.
Before him, it was the turn of Labor Jo Cox, who was stabbed and shot dead in northern England in June 2016, just before the Brexit referendum, by Thomas Mair, a lone wolf linked to the ideas of the nationalist and racist far-right. If the motive for the killing of Amess, a Tory brexiteer exponent, anti-abortionist and animal rights advocate, remains to be established, that meeting Cox was certainly of a political nature: linked to the hatred of Mair - who attacked the deputy with the cry of 'Britain first' - in the face of the pro-immigrant and pro-Europeanist commitment of his victim. The two attacks have in common the theater of action: both having occurred in the constituencies of the two deputies and on the sidelines of their meeting with voters.
The attack on another Labor MP, Stephen Timms, who was wounded with two stab wounds in his own constituency, in that case by a "radicalized" student, dates back to 2010.
While we have to go back to 2000 for the attack in which an assistant to the Liberal Democrat deputy Nigel Jones was killed, who stood in front of a stabber just to defend the parliamentarian.
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