Katie Hopkins reported to police after calling for 'final solution' following Manchester terror attack
Katie Hopkins has been reported to police demanding a ‘final solution’ – the Nazi term for the Holocaust – after 22 people died at the terror attack at Ariana Grande’s Manchester gig.
Hopkins, a leading columnist for the Mail Online, swiftly changed the Tweet to say ‘real solution’ but not before the Tweet was screengrabbed and she was branded ‘despicable’.
She also appears to reference TV host Philip Schofield, who walked across Westminster Bridge in ‘defiance’ following the attack on Parliament earlier this year.
Hopkins also posted: ‘My children say they would rather be shot than die slowly by nail bomb. This is the UK today.’
Critics are now calling for Hopkins, 42, to be fired by Mail Online and LBC radio – where she also has a show.
She has been reported to the Metropolitan Police over the tweet, which was part of a longer tirade, but the force said it was too early to confirm whether an investigation would be launched.
As well as the 22 fatalities, 59 people including children were injured after a suicide bomber detonated a nail bomb after Ariana Grande’s sold out gig at the MEN Arena. She has since suspended her word tour and Tweeted that she is ‘broken’ and ‘so so sorry’.
Meanwhile English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson also attacked Islam on Twitter and posted that British prisons are ‘jihad training camps’.
FACT: More than 200,000 British Muslims believe suicide attacks, like last night, is 'sometimes or often' justified. WAKE UP BRITAIN.
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) May 23, 2017
So he was a suicide bomber from the religion of peace. He was NOT alone, he's from a network called ISLAM
— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) May 23, 2017
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