David Copeland

David John Copeland , born May 15th 1976, is a former member of the party Néo-Nazi English, the National Socialist Movement which was better known under the pseudonym of the nailbomber after a series of 13 days attacks aiming of the Blacks, Asian, and the homosexual with London.

During three weeks successive, Copeland placed cluster bombs, each one containing 1500 nails of 1 centimetre length, outside a supermarket of Electric Avenue to Brixton, a district of the south of London with a very strong black population, with Brick Lane, district of the east of London with a great Asian community, and to the Admiral Duncan Pub on the Old Compton Street in Soho, heart of the gay community Londonnienne. The bombs exploded without no warning being given.

The attacks made three dead, all with the Admiral Duncan Pub . On the whole the three attacks made 129 wounded, of which 4 underwent amputations and 26 of the serious burns.

Although Copeland was diagnosed like having disorders of schizophrenic Paranoia and personality disorders, its complaint of reduced responsibility was rejected and he was shown murder the June 30th 2000, and was accepted six judgments with life.

Biography

Copeland was born with Isleworth, London, and grows with Yateley in the Hampshire. During its youth, it supported its small size badly and was called Mr. Angry (Mr. Colère). After its arrest he acknowledged with the psychiatrists whom he had started to have of the dreams Sadique S in the neighborhoods of his 12 years, of the whimsical dreams where he thought réincarner as an officer S having women like slaves. He left the school at 16 years to begin a training of engineering. He was then implied in small larcenies, and began saouler and to take drugs, in particular with the heroin. He says before the court that he had never had of boyfriend, and feared to be treated of homosexual because of that.

In May 1997, with the àge of 21ans, it joined the British National Party , a party of extreme right-hand side anti-immigration which introduces candidates to the elections. Copeland helped at some meetings of BNP, during which it could come into contact with the leaders of BNP. It was in particular photographed at the sides of John Tyndall, the leader of the time. It is during this period that Copeland learned how to build bombs starting from fires of artifices and alarm clocks as minuteurs thanks to the remote loading of a manual of the terrorist .

Copeland was surely désappointé by BNP which had moved away from any act recommending violence. It left BNP the same year. In 1998 it joined the National Socialis Movement, a smaller, violent and marked party néo Nazi. Copeland became leading branch of Hampshire a few weeks before it begins its series of attacks. It is during this time that it went in its doctor and was made prescribe antidepressants after having said that it had the impression to lose the head.

Bombings

The first attack of Copeland take place the April 17th 1999 on Electric Avenue with Brixton, part of what it called the frontline, a street famous for the racial riots of 1981 which took place with Brixton. Copeland made its bomb thanks to fires of artifices and dissimulated it in a sport bag before posing it beside the Iceland supermarket with the angle of Electric Avenue. The merchants became suspicieux and moved it several times, before it explodes with 17:25 when the police force arrived on the spot. 50 people were wounded, the majority seriously because of the nails which surrounded the bomb. One of the victims was a 23 month old child which received a nail in full head.

The second bomb of Copeland exploded one week later, the April 24th. The target was Brick Lane, the Bengali center of the community of the east of London. Brick Lane knew a famous market Sunday, Copeland would have liked to pose the bomb there this day but it was mistaken and desired to remain faithful to its plan, there thus exploded the bomb saturdays on Hanbury Street. This explosion made 13 wounded.

The third and last bomb exploded on April 30th, in Admiral Duncan Pub which was crammed. Admiral Duncan Pub is on Old Compton Street into full Soho, it is the center of the gay community Londonienne. There 3 died and 79 wounded, including 4 which undergoes amputations.

Arrest

The branch anti-terrorist of the London police services identified Copeland thanks to the system of video monitoring of Brixton. Its photograph was widely diffused the April 29th, which forced it to advance the date of the last attack at the Friday evening. Paul Mifsud, a colleague of Copeland, recognized it and alerted the authorities 1:20 before the explosion of the last bomb

He was stopped the night of the 29 to the 30 once the police force had obtained its address, a rented room with Farnborough, Hampshire. Its mental state was certified in Broadmoor Hospital, but remained a subject of controversy during its judgment. Sworn declared it guilty of 3 murders and 3 bomb attacks, and was comdamné to 6 custodial sentence with perpetuity on June 30th, 2000.

Motivations

Although some bunches asserted the attacks, Copeland maintains that it had only acts and had spoken about its projects to nobody, the police force retained this version of the facts.

During the interrogations he admitted to have ideas néo-Nazi, and stated to wish to be famous and “to spread the fear, the resentment and hatred” in the United Kingdom and “to cause a racial war”. When it was asked him why it had chosen its targets there, it answered that these ethnos groups, black and Asian, were lower and that it hated the homosexual ones.

See too

David Myatt
National Socialist Movement
Combat 18
The Anarchist Cookbook, which coepland

would have taken as a starting point

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