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London Faces Gang War

Concerned1 | 02.12.2002 10:13

London faces a gang war between rival factions over control of the drug supply.

London Faces Multicultural Gang War

Not many visitors to the BNP web site will have read an article that the "Guardian" newspaper carried on Saturday. On the closing day of November the voice of the liberal ruling establishment published an article about the very real prospect of gang war on the streets of Britain's biggest city. Mike Fuller, Scotland Yard's deputy assistant commissioner, said London's homegrown crime families and its gangs of Turks, Kurds, Albanians, Chinese and Jamaicans appear on the brink of a wave of turf wars for control of Britain's multimillion-dollar heroin and cocaine trade.

Probably not one of the intended benefits of the multi-cultural experiment, a battle took place two weeks ago on the streets of north London, involving drug gangs armed with guns, bats and knives that left half of the fighters so hurt they couldn't even crawl away. Now Scotland Yard is warning that London's gangs may be bidding for a major turf war. Police say the melee on November 10th in Haringey involved Turkish and Kurdish drug dealers who control 70 percent of Britain's heroin trade. According to the Kurdish news agency 6 youths were attacked by a gang of 150 supporters of the Kurdish group, PKK, after an argument about protection money. The gang chanted in the shop “Biji Serok Apo – Long live leader Ocalan” before attacking the workers in the shop.


Followers of Marxist Kurdish rebel Ocalan continue the battle for control of the streets of London.







``There's no precedent for this level of violence involving criminal gangs in London, or anywhere else in Britain,'' Stephen James, the police commander in the area, said.

Two people were killed, four were left on life support, and 20 were so battered they could barely move, he said. Protection rackets are commonplace:

``We're scared,'' said Medine Umut, 25, a cashier at the Turkish Food Market. ``Will we be the next store that has to pay the gangs off? We hear that teenagers who want to withdraw from the gangs are being threatened with death.''

The joys of multi-culturalism! Thanks to Tony Blair and his ilk, the streets of this once great capital city are home to the same appalling violence from which these supposed refugees allegedly fled. If New Labour wants to live up to its pre-election promise of "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" the first immediate step is to seal the borders, stop any further migration, then deal with the bogus refugees who are bringing war to our streets.

Concerned1