David Amess: cruel murder of MP shocked UK authorities

The British Conservative MP, David amess, died on Friday after being stabbed multiple times during an event in his constituency in the southeast of the United Kingdom, shocking a country still marked by the 2016 assassination of Labor MP Jo Cox.

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“Our hearts are filled with shock and sadness today at the death of Congressman Davis Amess, who was assassinated (…) after almost 40 years of service” to his constituents “and to the whole of the UK.”said the prime minister Boris Johnson in statements to British televisions.

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County police Essex received a call “Shortly after 12:05 (11:05 GMT) to report that Mr. Amess, 69, had been stabbed”, explained this in a statement, specifying that “Despite the efforts of the paramedics, unfortunately, he died at the scene”.

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“A 25-year-old man was arrested as a murder suspect and is in preventive detention”, he claimed. The attacker’s motive was unknown at the moment.

“We have recovered a knife at the scene and we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack,” added the authorities, while asking for the collaboration of witnesses or people “who have images from their security cameras.”.

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Amess, a member of Johnson’s party and a staunch defender of the Brexit, described by his peers as a fervent Catholic, a man with a “big heart” and an advocate for animals, used to roam his constituency to reach out to his constituents and on Friday he was in a Methodist church in Leigh-on-Sea.

“No one could think that something like this would happen around here”he told AFP Ashley Curtis, a 49-year-old neighbor whose house is 200 meters from the church, in an area that was flown over by two helicopters all afternoon and blocked with police cars and an ambulance.

“David Amess is a good guy. I have known him and I have had dealings with him in the past, “he explained, considering that the attacker had to” hold a lot of resentment to enter the Methodist church while he was receiving people and doing that to him. “.

The security of the deputies

“Shocked and deeply distressed by the assassination,” the Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, stressed that “in the coming days we will have to discuss and examine the safety of the deputies and the measures to be taken”.

Also the former chairman of the Conservative Party, Iain Duncan Smith, expressed his concern about security. “When you are not in your office, and you are in a public place, it means that the security measures they recommend cannot be taken”he tweeted.

This attack aroused the worst memories in a United Kingdom marked by the murder in the middle of the street in 2016 of the Europhile deputy Jo Cox, a week before the Brexit referendum, at the hands of a neo-Nazi sympathizer.

The deputy prime minister Dominic Raab paid tribute to a “tremendous militant with a great heart and an incredible generosity of spirit”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Liz Truss I consider that Amess “He was a charming man and a wonderful parliamentarian” and the Minister of Finance Rishi Sunak he denounced that “the worst of the violence is its inhumanity.”

Attack on democracy itself

“Attacking our elected representatives is an attack on democracy itself. There is no excuse or justification. It is the most cowardly thing there can be “, lashed out Brendan Cox, Cox’s widower, murdered when she was 41 years old.

The attack in 2016 on that Labor MP, a staunch defender of British membership of the European Union and the cause of refugees, shocked the United Kingdom, in a context of strong tension over the campaign for that consultation that divided the country.

She was the first female parliamentarian assassinated in the country and the first assassinated MP since Ian Gow, a victim of the IRA in 1990.

In 2010, the Labor MP Stephen Timms he was stabbed by a woman after voting for British intervention in the Iraq war.

And ten years earlier, the assistant to the Liberal Democratic deputy Nigel Jones died during a saber attack in a meeting with voters whose target was the legislator.

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