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.
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“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,” Vance posted Friday on X. “His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.”
Vance chiming in and blaming the European migration system, in part, for Nowak’s murder came just days after U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer bashed Tesla CEO Elon Musk for wading in with his opinions on the matter. After Musk said Western Europe has “created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of ‘racism’ is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder,” Starmer slammed him for “interfering” in British politics.
Starmer reacted similarly to Vance’s statement, with a spokesperson rejecting the outside noise without naming Vance in particular.
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“In recent days we have seen people trying to interfere in our democracy and seeking to stir up division on our streets,” a spokesperson for the prime minister’s office said in a statement to reporters. “The Nowak family are grieving after Henry’s horrific murder. They have said they do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We should be respecting their wishes.”
Starmer’s statement is one of the sharpest condemnations of U.S. leadership from the Labour Party leader, who has sparked ire within the Trump administration over his stance on the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.
