I don’t know if you are aware but riots are taking place on a daily basis in the United Kingdom. The spark is quite similar to what started the riots in France: a young boy was shot dead by the police. There of course none of that on the Isle of Man, I am following this through the local media and what my colleagues are saying about it.
The riot become a looting party every evening and each morning the police is releasing a statement detailing how many people have been arrested during the night. As there are a lot of surveillance cameras the pictures of the looters are broadcasted on TV and are found on almost every newspaper. The population is quite angered with the situation mostly because the looters are young and sometime very young so a lot of people are asking what the parents are doing. I just heard that a mother recognized her daughter on one of the pictures and handed her to the police. This morning an 11 year old girl was charged with attempted criminal damage and has been remanded in custody. I ask myself 2 questions about this. When do you start thinking about bashing a shopwindow when you are in the street to protest about the death of someone? What do you feel when you are a parent and the police comes early in the morning to get your daughter because she destroyed a bus stop the night before?
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