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31/07/00 - Chilling profile
of Nazi bomber
The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand)
ON June 30, a young British engineer was found guilty
of master-minding the horrific bomb campaign which targeted
London's minority communities in April last year.
Handed down six life sentences, three for each of the
people who died, and three to represent each of the
bomb attacks which maimed and injured hundreds more,
David Copeland expressed no remorse.
Previous statements to police had already confirmed
his cold-hearted conviction in his actions: "If
no one remembers who you are, then you never existed.
My aim was political. It was to cause a racial war in
this country."
The Nazi Nail Bomber is an extraordinary investigation
into the mind of one of the century's most disturbed
racial terrorists.
For 14 days in April last year, London's minority communities
were terrorised by a vicious bomb campaign. In two successive
weeks bombs packed with nails up to 15cm long were detonated
at street markets on Brixton High St and Brick Lane,
centres of London's black and Bangladeshi communities,
respectively. More than 100 people sustained horrific
injuries as a result of flying nails and glass. One
victim, a baby boy, was found with a nail lodged in
his skull. A few days later another nail bomb exploded
in a gay pub in Soho killing four people, including
a pregnant woman, and maiming others.
The Nazi Nail Bomber reconstructs in gripping detail Copeland's
one- man campaign of terror, based on unique and exclusive
material, including the killer's own account of how and
why he did it. The documentary shows how Copeland accessed
information through the Internet which enabled him to
build the amateur nail bombs and carry out his reign of
hatred and violence. Panorama suggests the tragic events
of April 1999 carry a warning for urban centres around
the world, as the Internet supplies information and ideas
to criminals and extremists. |
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