| | | UK: Muslim brandishes large knife in street while screaming ‘Allahu akbar,’ doctors say he’s mentally ill
MAR 8, 2021 5:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
Of course. What else could he possibly be? I mean, who ever heard of Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” behaving violently?
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“Hull University worker locked up after terrifying terrorism arrest as he brandished knife and chanted in quiet street,” by Nathan Standley, Hull Daily Mail, March 6, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
A former University of Hull staff member who brandished a large knife in the street while chanting religious slogans has been locked up indefinitely after a terrorism investigation.
Shocking footage of the terrifying incident in Cheadle Close, off Beverley Road, on Saturday, June 13 last year shows Munir Elkali, 32, in a garden, wearing a bandana and holding the weapon while repeatedly crouching and standing again, chanting loudly.
As traffic passes on nearby Beverley Road, the person filming, clearly frightened, is heard saying: “He’s going to kill someone here, he’s got a knife in his hand. What’s he doing?”
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Later footage shows Elkali continuing to chant as police, including armed officers, surround and detain him.
At the time, a spokeswoman for Humberside Police said officers had been called to reports of a man in the street carrying a knife and shouting at approximately 10am.
He was initially arrested on suspicion of affray and possession of an offensive weapon, but that was later changed to an arrest for terrorism offences, linked to the incident and posts found on social media in the days leading up to the incident.
Chief Superintendent Scott Young said at the time that police believed it to be an isolated incident with no wider risk to the public….
But prosecutors dropped the two terrorism charges against Elkali, originally from war-torn Libya, and he was sentenced solely for possessing a knife in public instead.
Elkali, listed online as a modern languages teaching assistant at the University of Hull, pleaded guilty to that offence via videolink after two psychiatrists reported that he had made “significant progress” under a hospital detention and wished to continue doing so, defence barrister Narita Bahra QC said.
The court heard Elkali had been suffering a mental breakdown due to paranoid schizophrenia when he went on to the footpath outside his home on Cheadle Close last year, armed with the kitchen knife with a three-inch blade and in an agitated state….
The Recorder of Middlesbrough, Judge Paul Watson QC, who was due to conduct the trial, thanked the prosecution and the defence for reaching a conclusion to the case.
The judge told Elkali: ”It’s perfectly clear that you were in a disorientated and agitated state because of your mental illness at the time.”… |
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