According to the Met, five people sustained stab wounds during the two-day Notting Hill Carnival, a multicultural street festival in Europe, with a 32-year-old woman among the stab victims sustaining “life threatening” injuries.
“It had been reported of five stab wounds, two of those were slash wounds suffered by the victims and one of those involved the use of a corrosive substance.”
“Two of those people who were rushed on emergency after being stabbed are reported to be in a life threatening condition. The 32-year- old lady who had been stabbed on Sunday still remains in a life threatening condition,” said the police.
“In total, as of 10.45 pm local time on Monday, September 15 there were in excess of 230 arrests made, including 37 for assaulting emergency workplace staff, 49 for offensive weapon use, and all other sexual crimes 8 in number” said the statement of London Metro police Over 230 arrests, including as of 10:45 PM Monday. Security officials also recovered Hundereds of firearms amidst the festivities. Thirty Five police officers were also reported injured during the festival.
“This carnivore commemorating the African and Caribbean People. The pages of history which occurred in the district of Notting hill in western London were filled with people exceeding 1 million. Being part of the organization of the events, 7000 police officers patrolling the event commence the march on one day and curtail the arrett within the next resulting to apprehension in assistance of the population distance.” How safe were these over the top arrangements?
In 1959, Trinidadian activist Claudia Jones was the first to cite the genesis of this event, as she expounded a Caribbean carnival at St Pancras Town Hall in London. It was the world’s most humorous event however; it was staged in response to riots that had ensued and racial tensions in London around that time.
That was the feeling that most of the participants of this year’s carnival especially on the second day felt and traced to the July racist riots that followed the spreading of false news about a knife-wielding suspect who killed three girls in Southport North-west of England, being the perpetrators.
Matthew Phillip, who oversees the Notting Hill carnival for producers, told Reuters the event was Britain’s largest celebration of togetherness “of the things we have in common, rather than our differences”.
