The man attempting to break into Windsor Castle was armed with a crossbow.
A 19-year-old from Southampton is being arrested under the Mental Health Act. He was armed with a crossbow. Around the same time, a video surfaced on Snapchat in which a crossbow man threatened to kill Queen Elizabeth in order to avenge those killed in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
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London Police said on Sunday that a man armed with a crossbow was arrested after attempting to break into Windsor Castle, where Queen Elizabeth was celebrating Christmas, London police said on Sunday. Police said the 19-year-old from Southampton, southern England, was stopped within moments of entering the palace grounds on Christmas morning and did not enter any buildings. “The man has been taken into custody and has undergone a mental health assessment – he has since been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and remains under the care of medical professionals,” police said. “After the man was searched, a crossbow was recovered.”
Queen Elizabeth, who has spent much of the COVID-19 pandemic at Windsor Castle, is spending Christmas there with her son, Prince Charles, his wife, Camilla, and other close family members. According to the Mail on Sunday, the arrested teen used a rope ladder to carve the metal fence. Security breaches at royal residences are rare. The most serious incident during the Queen’s reign occurred in 1982, when an intruder climbed a wall and broke into her London home at Buckingham Palace and wandered into a room where she was in bed.
The Daily Mail says that half an hour before the arrest, a video surfaced on Snapchat showing a crossbow-wearing man threatening to ‘kill the Queen to avenge the Amritsar massacre of 1919’. It is being speculated from this that the person seen in the video is the juvenile who has been arrested. Jaswant Singh Chail uploaded a pre-recorded video and used a filter to distort his voice. He said: ‘I’m sorry. I am sorry for what I have done and what I will do. I will attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth of the royal family. This is the revenge of those who died in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919. It is also revenge for those who were killed, humiliated and discriminated against because of their caste. I am an Indian Sikh, a Sith. My name was Jaswant Singh Chail, my name is Darth Jones.”
“Police are looking into how the intruder was able to scale the pointed perimeter fence around the grounds of the Berkshire castle,” the Daily Mail said.
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