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Windsor Castle armed intruder wanted to 'assassinate the queen'

2021-12-27T11:15:35.293Z


Man arrested and interned after entering with a crossbow on Saturday in the grounds of Windsor Castle, Elizabeth's residence


The 19-year-old man living in Southampton (southern England) was arrested on Saturday around 8:30 am a few moments after entering the grounds of the castle where the 95-year-old monarch was spending Christmas.

According to the tabloid The Sun, the man had announced his intention to "assassinate the queen" in a video.

According to these images which would have been published on the suspect's Snapchat account a few minutes before his attempted intrusion, the man in the black hoodie and white mask and handling a crossbow throws: "I'm sorry for what I am doing." have done and what am I going to do.

I will try to assassinate Queen Elizabeth ”.

With apparent references to the "Star Wars" saga, he presents himself as a Sikh Indian and says he is seeking "revenge" for a massacre committed in 1919 by British troops against demonstrators in India.

For the time being, without wishing to confirm the authenticity of these images specifically, the London police indicated that "investigators are evaluating the content of a video".

Intrusions in Windsor are not uncommon

Queen Elizabeth II, 95, is spending the holiday season in Windsor, now her primary residence, after giving up as she usually does to Sandringham, in eastern England, in due to the resurgence of Covid-19 in the UK due to the Omicron variant.

The sovereign, for her first Christmas since the death of her husband Philip in April at the age of 99, was joined on Saturday by several members of the family such as her sons Charles and Edward and the wives of the latter.

Attempts at intrusion in Windsor as well as in Buckingham Palace, the Queen's residence in the heart of London, are not exceptional.

The most spectacular dates back to 1982, in Buckingham, when a thirty-something, Michael Fagan, managed to make his way to the queen's bedroom, who was in bed.

Source: leparis

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