The Queen Elizabeth is definitely not at the end of his sentences after an already trying year … Saturday, December 25, 2021, an individual indeed entered the territory of Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow. As AFP detailed, this 19-year-old young man living in Southampton (southern England) was arrested around 8:30 am, shortly after his intrusion, before being interned in psychiatric care. Since then, the English tabloid The Sun released a video believed to be from the suspect’s Snapchat account, which was reportedly posted shortly before his Windsor intrusion.
In a black hoodie and white mask, he handles the crossbow and says: “Je am sorry for what i have done and what i am going to do. I will try to assassinate Queen Elizabeth“. With apparent references to the saga Star Wars, he introduces himself as a Sikh Indian and says he is looking for “revenge“for a massacre committed in 1919 by British troops against demonstrators in India. Without wishing to confirm the authenticity of these images specifically, the London police have indicated that”investigators assess the content of a video“.
For her part, Elizabeth II was in her private apartments at the time of the intrusion. The 95-year-old sovereign was preparing to celebrate her very first Christmas without her husband Prince Philip, who died last April. The one who is used to spending the holidays in Sandringham has chosen this year to stay in Windsor, due to the resurgence of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom. His traditional pre-Christmas lunch in Buckingham, with the whole royal family, had meanwhile been canceled for the same reason.
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