One of the first pieces of spin about the man who killed the Yorkshire MP Jo Cox was an attempt to link him with modern Nazis. And we were told that he had “Nazi memorabilia”. Which set a writer friend of mine wondering what the police would make of the stuff in is writing room if they raided him on some flimsy pretext.
He has an Iron Cross from the first world war but hey – it’s an Iron Cross so he’s a Nazi, yeah? And then there are all the notes on terrorist groups and weapons he made for a series of novels set in the 1970s and 1980s. If he were to be raided, would we get hysterical headlines about a major terrorist threat being averted on the basis of his notes?
Because it does seem that the police are not happy with a crime committed by one man of doubtful mental stability and their first instinct is to chuck in some usual suspects. And if they can get Nazis into their conspiracy then, wow! How good is that?
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