He picked an event that would be female focused. He got a taxi there from another area - he knew the time and location. Incels do not like Taylor Swift as she promotes female empowerment. Like the Australia incident the only male injured was protecting the women and little girls here. I’ll hold full judgement until we get more evidence but it’s what seems the most likely motive.
It reminds me of the Ikeda kindergarten mass murder in Japan in 2001 too. I worked in the country at the time and recall the shock and outrage and the sudden fitting of security doors in all schools later. A disgruntled 30-omething male employee with a lifelong history of crime entered the kindergarten and stabbed eight kids to death, seven of them girls. One boy, an older one, but he focused on the girls. The perpetrator was hanged in rather record time for Japan - two years - when often death row prisoners languish there for decades.
I do tend to think men who do mass murders always, always look for the softest targets by nature. They want to feel powerful so they never focus on anyone remotely able to fight back. it's always kids, women, old people, the unarmed etc. There may well be an element of misogyny in a lot of these crimes too.
I read something on reddit today - someone who knew Axel's brother and knew him vaguely - said he was odd and stayed indoors a lot. Went to school in Formby. Also said he had a fixation on the Rwandan Genocide and thought Britain 'needed' similar. This may all be
bull on the poster's part but it wasn't presented in a sensationalistic manner. Obviously, people in the area will know him and his family. It may be that was the bloody motivation, some insane fixation on his own family's trauma. Whatever, he needs locking up for the rest of his rotten life.
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Wait a mo…… he lives abroad?? Where there is a housing crisis. Talk about pots and bleeping kettles….. or is it ok because he’s got money and is white in a white country? Love someone to ask him that one!!!
Yes. He will doubtless have bought a golden visa - a common way to get legal residence in various southern European countries regardless of EU status. Any foreigner with enough dosh can do it. Spain has similar (or had, think they may be winding it up soon), Malta too. You invest mid six figures in property or the economy in some way (put money into a local business), they let you legally reside there. Malta just sells the uber rich the whole
bleeping passport. Lots of dodgy Russians with Maltese nationality now!