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lez-anyaToday marks the day, 26 years ago, that the final of 3 nail bombs were detonated in London by a White-Supremacist Neo-Nazi.
The final bomb exploded outside the Admiral Duncan Pub in Soho, Westminster, the heart of the Queer community.
79 were injured, 4 lost their lives.
A total of 140 people were injured over the course of the 3 bombings, with the perpetrator being arrested soon after the final bomb.
The previous attacks took place in Brixton on the 17th April 1999 (targeting the black community), and Brick Lane (East End, targeting the Bangladeshi community) on the 24th April 1999.
48 were injured in the first attack, 13 in the second attack, with the only deaths occuring on the third and final attack.
The names of those who died are:
Andrea Dykes, 27, four months pregnant with her first child.
Nik Moore, 31
John Light, 32, the baby's godfather.
Andrea's husband, Julian, was one of those injured.
They had gathered to celebrate Andrea's pregnancy.
In 2009, Mark Healey set up the organisation 17-24-30 to commemorate the 3 attacks and to raise awareness of Hate Crimes.
More on this organisation can be found here:
https://172430notohatecrime.wordpress.com/
It is important that, especially now, we remember events like this. The constant and repeated attacks on minority communities around the world, with the far-right growing increasingly extreme in their actions.
Back in 2021, the informant who identified the perpetrator of the attacks gave a very similar warning of the inevitability of a new string of attacks by the Far-Right:
Infrapink (he/his/him)
Antifa International
William Lindsey 
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