FAR-RIGHT agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has claimed to have apologised to a Scottish man after sparking a racist pile-on by falsely claiming he had been filming children.
However, the serial criminal – who prefers to be called “Tommy Robinson” – has insisted that just because he was wrong does not mean there are not “freshie migrants taking over parks and filming children”.
Yaxley-Lennon had initiated racist online abuse against Glasgow-born Quroum Beg after he was targeted by anti-immigration protesters on Sunday evening.
Posters shared online had urged people to take to the streets of the Gorbals, claiming that as it was near “problematic areas like Govanhill [a very diverse area of the city which has played home to migrant and refugee communities over many generations], the crime will get significantly worse” and “our daughters no longer feel safe playing in our streets”.
Video online showed people confronting Beg, who had been out with his children, claiming that he was “filming kids” – a trope of the far-right’s depiction of migrants.
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Yaxley-Lennon made the same false claim online, sharing a video and writing: “Another invader hanging around a park filming children. Glasgow again too!”
The social media post led to Beg being given access to a special urgent police response on his phone for his own safety, STV reported.
Beg said: “I’m the fourth generation in this country, my children will be the fifth generation here. If I don’t make a stand, then who else is going to do that?”
Yaxley-Lennon on Wednesday retracted his false claims, but insisted that he had been right to make them.
“I have to correct the record here. In this instance I got it wrong, as did many others, so for that I apologise and I have deleted that post,” the far-right agitator wrote.
“HOWEVER.... That does not negate all the other many instances of freshie migrants taking over parks and filming children. It happens, It happens a lot.
“One incorrect example does not mean this issue should be ignored, in fact it should chased down relentlessly.
“People may need to be a little more careful about how they approach these situations from a factual point of view but we should never apologise for protecting children.”
Other users of the social media site X agreed with Yaxley-Lennon, variously blaming the government, migrants, or Beg himself for the racist abuse which had been levelled at him.
