Elon Musk and the American far right stoke anger over the murder of a British teenager

On Tuesday, protests in the United Kingdom over the murder of an 18-year-old youth in December turned violent, and far-right influence figures in the United States tried to use the incident to claim that it was evidence of widespread anti-white racism.

Outside the central police station in Southampton, the police were attacked with stones and flares, and hundreds of people gathered together and arrested in anger, as video footage from the accompanying camera showed Henry Novak being handcuffed while dying, while the killer, Wiekrum Digwa, was standing nearby.

On Monday, Digva was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Novak in December 2025. At that time, Digva was a Sikh who lied to the police and told them that he had been subjected to racial abuse. This resulted in the police handcuffing Novak, although the juvenile repeatedly stated that he could not breathe and was stabbed. You can hear a policeman say, "Don't think you have it, man."

Outside the courtroom on Monday, Novak's father called the police “inhuman and degrading”, but made it clear that “we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension”.

However, in a matter of hours, far-right people on both sides of the Atlantic had tried to take advantage of the anger caused by Novak ' s death, which many social media posts claimed to be evidence of anti-white racism, with millions of hits.

The core of this is... SpaceX The Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, has issued dozens of posts on these cases over the past 24 hours, including an offer to finance the prosecution of the police officers involved. “The official police policy requires them to be racist towards whites”, said Mask.

Mask also shared a video from British far-right instigator Tommy Robinson calling for people to gather outside the central police station in Southampton on Tuesday night, echoing the call of the leader of the Reform Party, Nigel Farage, to respond to the incident with “pure apathy of anger”.

“I heard someone say it's not about race; it's about race,” Robinson told the crowd. The BBC reported that protesters were later prevented from entering the streets of Digwa where they lived with their families.

Increased tension

The British Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmoud, described the violence as “totally unacceptable” and condemned those acts that fuel tension: “There is no reason to abduct this tragedy to incite violence and unrest”.

But extreme right-wing Americans continue to promote anti-white rhetoric.

Right-wing podcast and conspirator Mike Cernovich wrote on X, "You will be called racist for supporting the West, or you will watch your children bleed in front of the camera."

Matt Walsh, who earlier this week described the murder of Novak as “systematic hatred, oppression and marginalization of whites”, shared footage of the Southampton protests and wrote, “Encouraging. The Native Americans have finally had enough."

George Freud comparison

Many right-wing people compared the death of Novak with George Freud, including the podcast anchor and the wife of Stephen Miller, an important adviser to Trump, Katie Miller. “Kel Stammer spoke publicly at least seven times about George Freud,” Miller wrote in response to the British Prime Minister's message. “He only mentioned Henry Novak's name once. Why are the criteria for crimes against white people different?"

Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist, focused on the murder of Novak on Tuesday night in Rumble's evening show, calling it “white George Freud” and claiming that Digva should be executed. “Unless whites are willing to fight for a place in this world, we will die.” Fuentes said.

He also posted on X about the murder, writing, "It's a parable of what Europe's civilization is doing on a global scale."

This is not the first time that Maasq and far-right elements in the United States have been accused of inciting violence in Britain and other European countries. In 2024, Mask was widely accused of inciting anti-immigrant riots in the United Kingdom; in 2023, figures such as Musk and Steve Bannon in the capital incited the voices of the Irish civil war.