This year Elisabeth II was forced to change her plans for Christmas. The queen had yet received the approval of her doctors authorizing her to organize her traditional annual party, then to go to her estate in Sandringham, Norfolk. If she had to cancel this reunion, some members of the British royal family, such as Prince Charles and Camilla, or Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, joined Elisabeth II at Windsor Castle on Saturday, December 25, to celebrate Christmas. The first she spent without her late husband, Prince Philip, who died on April 9, at the age of 99.
“I will try to assassinate the queen”
But, as the Queen quietly woke up in a small committee, an intrusion into Windsor Castle disrupted the festivities. According to ” The Sun », A man armed with a crossbow entered the field on Saturday 25 December. Police said the 19-year-old man named Jaswant Singh Chail from Southampton was arrested around 8:30 am. In the midst of an investigation, the police were studying a video of about twenty minutes that the young man had sent from his Snapchat account on the morning of his arrest.
In the images “The Sun” obtained, the individual appears wearing a black hooded sweater with a white mask. He holds his crossbow and addresses the camera with a distorted voice. “I’m sorry for what I’ve done and what I’m going to do. I am going to try to assassinate Queen Elisabeth II, queen of the royal family. It is revenge for those who died in the massacre of Jallianwala Bagh in 1919 ”, he explains in the images. Also known as the Amritsar Massacre, in which Indian soldiers of the British Raj opened fire on protesters in India, killing several hundred people.
This tragic event was not the young man’s only motivation to push him to want to kill the queen. “It is also revenge for those who have been killed, humiliated and discriminated against because of their race. I am an Indian Sikh, a Sith. My name was Jaswant Singh Chail, my name is Dark Jones, ”he continued. A speech clearly referring to the Star Wars saga. Since then, the young man has been interned in psychiatric care.
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