On
saturday, May 1, 1999, a
nail bomb ripped through the
Admiral Duncan, a
gay pub in
Old Compton St. in the west end of
London killing two people and injuring more than eighty.
This followed two other blasts in
Brick Lane, a predominantly asian area, and
Brixton, a predominantly black area.
A man called
David Copeland was arrested for the
bombings. He was not a member of any
extremist group, although, sadly enough, other extremist groups were claiming responsibility for the bombings, namely the
White Wolves.
His motivations are alleged by some to have been
xenophobic, implying that he hated the changing faces of
England's ethnic and cultural mixes, seeing them as an invasion.
Shortly after this, "
You can't kill us all", poster
campaign started in
Soho.