A man alleged to have stabbed an 11-year-old girl eight times in London‘s famous West End is confirmed to be a 32-year-old migrant from Romania. Prosecutors say Ioan Pintaru, who is homeless, “approached the 11-year-old girl, placed her into a headlock, he then stabbed her eight times to the body” in Leicester Square around 11:34 AM on Monday.
“She sustained wounds to the face, shoulder, wrist, and neck area. Fortunately members of the public intervened, which prevented any further injury being made to the child,” prosecutor David Burns told Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
District Judge Michael Snow, describing the stabbing as a “random attack on a child,” has remanded Pintaru in custody ahead of an appearance before the Crown Court on charges of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article.
The young victim, said to have been on holiday in the British capital with her mother, 34, reportedly requires plastic surgery.
The attack follows the deadly mass stabbing of multiple young girls, three of whom were killed, as a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class in the seaside town of Southport. A migration-background teenager is the suspect in that attack, which sparked many anti-mass migration protests and Muslim and far-left counter-protests across England and Northern Ireland.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is accused of presiding over a two-tier response to the protests and counter-protests, several of which have devolved into rioting, denouncing “far-right thugs” protesting immigration while police appease Muslim counter-protesters.
His chief prosecutor is having people arrested for “stirring up hatred” and sharing “inaccurate information” in connection to the riots and the Southport stabbings online, going so far as to threaten to extradite problematic posters who are overseas.
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