Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the Henry Nowak murder rocking the United Kingdom on Friday, saying the university student would still be alive today if European leaders stood up against the “politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants.”

The murder of 18-year-old Nowak by Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old British-born Sikh, has sparked outrage and unrest across the U.K. Protesters have taken to the streets this week after police body camera footage showed the responding law enforcement officers siding at first with the murderer when Digwa accused Nowak, who was pleading with the officers as he bled from multiple stab wounds, of being racist toward him.