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ENGLAND: Riots in the North. Simon Constable Occitanie

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

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ENGLAND: Riots in the North. Simon Constable Occitanie
https://www.nytimes.com/article/uk-riots-protests.html

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0:00.0

I'm John Bocher with my good colleagues Simon Constable in the South of France reporting

0:09.9

for Barron's and the Wall Street Journal and other distinguished publications remembering 2004

0:16.0

in the IPO of Google.

0:18.0

However, we turn to a story that is

0:23.0

the

0:25.0

the riots that have been going for six now seven maybe eight nights I lose count

0:30.7

in all of England but especially in the north and Northern Ireland,

0:34.8

violent, looting, burning, store smashing, massive arrest, so much so that Reuters

0:41.0

reported 24 hours hence that the government is looking for

0:45.7

additional prison capacity for the number of arrests I saw the number 400 is

0:51.1

probably climbing now.

0:53.0

Simon, what's driving this?

0:54.8

Is there any explanation?

0:56.4

It's hot, it's August, and the look of the young man

1:01.0

that I've seen on videos, is there big shoulders and healthy looking why are they so angry to smash windows?

1:08.0

Well let's let's rewind a little bit and go back to an event for some little children.

1:16.1

I mean, very little children could not be mistaken for adults in any way.

1:20.0

So five, six, seven yearolds, three of them were murdered by a boy who's 17 years old and he's

1:29.4

been arrested and will no doubt be charged and then prosecuted and that will all be done privately because of his age.

1:38.3

That has sparked or is seemingly sparked these riots to go around and this and this is actually only really a

1:46.5

catalyst I think there's a lot of discontent among people around Britain and there has been for a long time we saw it in the Brexit vote which was to say we don't really want to be part of Europe because of the flood of immigrants coming into the country.

2:01.7

There are still a lot of immigrants coming into the country. There are still a lot of immigrants coming into the country,

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