December 09, 2008
UK: Prison Muslim Youth Celebrate Eid With Riot
The youths "celebrated" for 5 hours.
A FIVE-hour rampage by young Muslim prisoners armed with hammers and chisels was broken up by a riot squad yesterday.Dozens of inmates barricaded themselves into a workshop and grabbed tools including saws. Riot police and 100 specially-trained prison officers — kitted out with body armour, shields and helmets — were called in.
When negotiations failed, the officers moved in and overpowered the prisoners — many of whom were teenagers.
It is believed the rampage at Aylesbury Young Offenders’ Institution started after inmates celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid which marks the end of Ramadan.
The article states most are serving long sentences including life. Maybe they wanted to celebrate the end of Ramadan with martyrdom.
By Stable Hand at 07:17 PM |
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