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23 Apr 2015

Author:
Samantha Payne, Intl. Business Times

Katie Hopkins: Police examine incitement to racial hatred allegations against The Sun columnist

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Police are considering the 'incitement to hatred' allegations against Katie Hopkins and The Sun newspaper after her "xenophobic" comments comparing migrants to "cockroaches". The Society of Black Lawyers wrote a...letter to the Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe calling for Hopkins and The Sun's editor David Dinsmore to be immediately investigated under the Public Order Act 1986...In her column dated 17 April she described the crisis of the migrants fleeing Libya as "cockroaches" who should all be shot at with "gunships" to prevent them from landing on shore...The society said it would also be petitioning the International Criminal Court to carry out an investigation into these comments under "the provisions of incitement to commit crimes against humanity"...The agent for Katie Hopkins was not available for comment. A spokesman for the newspaper said: "The Sun has not received any communication from either the Met or the ICC."