That 17-year-old had no idea what Hebrew script or a menorah was. He just fancied setting fire to an empty building in the middle of the night for a laugh. Was he on drugs? Heaven forfend. And how common is this? Many people might be very surprised, since most of these incidents never made the news, as in itself would be a story.
But the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the big winner from Donald Trump's intervention in an Iran where that Corps had previously faced significant rival powerbases, does not go around paying teenagers to throw bottles of accelerant through windows with no one behind them. Even if it did, though, then why would it have any wish to do so in Britain, since this was "not our war"?
If it is firestarters that you want, then be at the Old Bailey from Monday 27 April, when the trial of Roman Lavrynovych, Petro Pochynok and Stanislav Carpiuc is due to start. Lavrynovych faces three charges of arson with intent to endanger life, while Pochynok and Carpiuc each face one count of conspiracy to commit the same.
The alleged targets were Keir Starmer's rented out house, his old flat from way back, and his old car that he had sold to a neighbour. Who would know that much about someone else? Certainly not a casual acquaintance. So this trial will either be the story of the year, or the story of the year will be the fact that it was not.
I'd been thinking this, these are the only arsons without intent to endanger life that we hear about but doped up boys must commit them all the time.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Ukrainians are charged with, or in relation to, arson with intent to endanger life, specifically the life of the Prime Minister. Yet we never hear a word about them.
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