Musk calls for the release of imprisoned British far-right activist Tommy Robinson | Far right news
US tech billionaire says Tommy Robinson, who is serving an 18-month prison sentence, ‘should be freed’.
Elon Musk he called for the release of jailed British far-right activist Tommy Robinson and criticized UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer over his response to the scandals while he was the country’s attorney general more than a decade ago.
In a series of social media posts on Thursday, the US tech billionaire said Robinson, who founded the far-right English Defense League and whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, “should be freed”.
“Why is Tommy Robinson in prison for the truth?” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform he owns, on Thursday.
“He should be released and those who covered up this travesty should take his place in that cell,” he wrote.
Robinsona former football hooligan with a string of criminal convictions in the UK, is serving an 18-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to contempt of court in a long-running defamation case involving a Syrian refugee.
Musk also posted several messages about groom scandals that took place for decades in a number of English towns and cities, including Rochdale, Rotherham and Oldham, until they were exposed more than a decade ago.
Musk shared various claims by other accounts about the scandals and criticized Starmer’s response to the scandal.
“In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the approval of the Crown Prosecution Service for police to charge suspects. Who was in charge of CPS when gang rapes were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008-2013,” he posted, criticizing the current British Prime Minister.
Starmer was head of the CPS during that period and began prosecuting the groom gang in Rochdale during his final year in the role, shortly after the scandal broke. None of the investigations into the scandal have singled out Starmer as the culprit or found that he tried to prevent prosecution.
In 2012, Starmer blamed the justice system’s flawed approach to sexual exploitation and ordered a comprehensive restructuring of the CPS’s response to it.
Musk’s tweets about Robinson received support from far-right figures, including Dutch politician Geert Wilders, as well as some right-wing YouTube channels that also called for his release.
The US tech billionaire’s latest intervention into British politics comes after his recent statement on support for Germany’s far-right AfD party, where he argued that the AfD is the only party that can “save” Germany as the country heads towards early elections next month.
The German government accused him of meddling in the vote.
Musk has also openly supported other far-right figures in Europe, including Nigel Farage of Britain’s Reform Party and Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni.
Musk was also a prominent financier and campaign supporter of US President-elect Donald Trump. Last month, Trump denied claims that he had “ceded the presidency” to Musk.
