Author: Joe Roberts
Tommy Robinson has admitted spreading fake news about ‘Muslimgangs’ at the school where a Syrian refugee was ‘waterboarded’ by bullies.
The English Defence League founder filmed a seven-minute rant today claiming five Muslim pupils had attacked a 13-year-old white boy.
He said the boy’s mother had sent him photos of his ‘injuries’ and he claimed there was a media blackout on Muslim gangs beating up white children in schools.
But it appears someone had been pulling his chain all along.
He admitted to his 970,000 followers on Facebook: ‘I have been completely had, how embarrassing man.
‘I had a woman, and I’ll show you our screenshots, messaging me all morning about what had happened to her son.
‘It turns out some leftie is sitting somewhere absolutely mugging me completely off and laughing about it.
‘So yeah, fake news central.
‘It turns out the “13-year-old boy” who had been jumped by five Muslims wasn’t her son.’
The far-right activist also claimed the 15-year-old Syrian refugee, who has been named as Jamal, allegedly ‘attacked a white girl’.
He is still standing by those claims, despite Jamal’s lawyer Mohammed Akunjee saying the family is considering bringing legal action against him.
Robinson earlier said ‘everyone is terrified’ of Muslim gangs at Almondbury School in Huddersfield.
He said the 16-year-old boy, who was charged with assault after the attack on Jamal, is ‘living in complete fear and the whole country has turned on him’.
In a Facebook Live video, Robinson fumed over the sympathy shown to the Syrian refugee victim and his family.
Robinson said: ‘Imagine being in that school, you have lots of Muslim gangs beating up lots of young English kids, not one-on-one but gangs booting the hell out of them.
‘Then you decide to make a stand against this kid and you go up and grab him, then what happens? The whole world turns against him.’
He also hit out at what he called ‘bearded Muslim men’ outside the school holding a demonstration in solidarity with Jamal and his family.
Jamal appeared outside his school today and said ‘thanks’ to around 30 protesters.
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/29/tommy-robinson-admits-spreading-fake-news-about-muslims-school-gangs-8192842/
