04/11/2025
Samir Zitouni was critically injured on Saturday night after he stepped in to protect passengers during a mass stabbing on a train.
His actions were heroic and I hope he recovers quickly and is out of hospital soon.
His name should be on everyone’s lips, his bravery commended. This is what good people do.
I know my ‘coming over here’ comment is flippant but I really do hope that people can see the idiocy of sweeping, bigoted generalisations about people based on their place of birth, skin colour or religious beliefs.
We are enriched as a country by embracing and celebrating our differences as well as our common humanity. Hooray for wonderful, selfless people like Samir and shame on every person who has picked apart the details of the suspect, hoping to make him less British or ‘one of us.’ Distancing ourselves from the root causes of violent crime is a sure way of dooming repetition.