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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Matthew Weaver

Dover petrol bomb attacker said he planned to ‘obliterate Muslim children’

Security guards stands in front of the gate near the migrant processing centre in Dover.
Security guards stands in front of the gate near the migrant processing centre in Dover. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

Andrew Leak said he planned to “obliterate Muslim children” an hour before his firebomb attack in Dover, it has been revealed, amid continuing questions about why it took police so long to treat the incident as terrorism.

In his final tweet before the attack, Leak, 66, said: “We will obliterate them Muslim children [they] are now our target. And there [sic] disgusting women will be targeted mothers and sisters Is burn alive”.

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