Atlantic Road/Electric Avenue murder/stabbings 12-01-08
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gaijingirl
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Holy f*&k!!! 
We just passed there on our bikes - still plenty of police about - there is a very very narrow cordoned off section going between Footlocker and the deli... 
We just passed there on our bikes - still plenty of police about - there is a very very narrow cordoned off section going between Footlocker and the deli... 
editor
hiraethified
Atlantic Road is still sealed off. There seemed to be a lot of police tape and activity around one of the butchers by the junction with Electric Avenue.
Word is that Coldharbour Lane has been especially gnarly all day. I wonder if any of this is related to the incident at the Twin Barbers?
Word is that Coldharbour Lane has been especially gnarly all day. I wonder if any of this is related to the incident at the Twin Barbers?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
it's still cordoned off
Atlantic Rd still cordoned off from both ends, and there is a white tent in the road close to the electric Avenue junction.
Bloody depressing.
Saw this as I came past in black cab after midnight, and the cabbie made a comment about having locked his doors as he entered Brixton. The 3 Brixtonian passengers all made comments back, and he conceded that actually Brixton was fine for cabs etc in the past few years...and we ran up against all the police tape.
Bloody depressing.
Saw this as I came past in black cab after midnight, and the cabbie made a comment about having locked his doors as he entered Brixton. The 3 Brixtonian passengers all made comments back, and he conceded that actually Brixton was fine for cabs etc in the past few years...and we ran up against all the police tape.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Maybe they were fighting over the last celeriac
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Not funny OU. I walk down there on average twice a day to and from work, as well as stopping for a chat at weekends when I'm shopping and this could easily be someone who I normally exchange greetings with that has been killed. I'm really upset about the whole thing. I don't just live here, Brixton has been my home for 26 years and it's not the buildings that make it so, it's the people.
edited for clarity. I was so upset I missed the end off a sentence.
edited for clarity. I was so upset I missed the end off a sentence.
editor
hiraethified
That's how I feel.Mrs Magpie said:
I've always liked the vibe on Atlantic Road with the cheery butchers blaring out their music, mixing with the other sounds on the streets, but with the BBC reporting it as a "row involving a group of black men and others of Middle Eastern appearance," I'm feeling very uneasy about it all.
editor
hiraethified
Some more news reports saying the same thing:
ViewLondon: http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/murder-at-brixton-greengrocer-18424319.html
Capital Radio: http://www.capitalradio.co.uk/Article.asp?id=548105
ViewLondon: http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/news/murder-at-brixton-greengrocer-18424319.html
Wednesdayite
The boy from Sheff
Just down there and speaking to several people who have said - and I would not make this up - that oranges were involved. Some kind of argument over oranges. A man is dead by what may have been an argument over fruit.
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
editor said:
From that Capital Radio article:
"Detectives believe they know the identity of the diseased - but are letting his relatives know before releasing his name."
Sorry - I know there are wider issues under discussion here but FFS!!
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
I was on the 322 at around 8pm last night and the street had just been cordoned off. I knew it was bad when I saw it was still cordoned off today.
Does anyone know which greengrocers it was? I often shop along there, and as Mrs M has said I find it supremely depressing and disturbing.
Does anyone know which greengrocers it was? I often shop along there, and as Mrs M has said I find it supremely depressing and disturbing.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Wednesdayite said:
Well not much different than someone getting killed over a can of coke at Notting Hill then is it
Wednesdayite
The boy from Sheff
The greengrocers is right on the corner. M.A. Nasseri I think.
Tragic.
From what I've seen, those market-traders are very friendly, hard-working "mind my own business" sort of people. Many of them come from pretty tough places and have come here for a better life, only to find one of their own stabbed by some feral youth over some fruit that was probably being stolen from them, who knows? I mean, if you're prepared to kill someone over a piece of fruit, I daresay you would have had no problem stealing it .
I fear that this may just be the beginning of some very nasty reprisals. Not necessarily of the gunshot and stabbing variety, but there might be retaliations just the same.
Sadly, those who will suffer will not be the ones who caused the problem, but just be unfortunate in looking or sounding enough like the murderers to be associated with them.
From what I've seen, those market-traders are very friendly, hard-working "mind my own business" sort of people. Many of them come from pretty tough places and have come here for a better life, only to find one of their own stabbed by some feral youth over some fruit that was probably being stolen from them, who knows? I mean, if you're prepared to kill someone over a piece of fruit, I daresay you would have had no problem stealing it .
I fear that this may just be the beginning of some very nasty reprisals. Not necessarily of the gunshot and stabbing variety, but there might be retaliations just the same.
Sadly, those who will suffer will not be the ones who caused the problem, but just be unfortunate in looking or sounding enough like the murderers to be associated with them.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Mind said:
Apparently it was an Afghani young man in his 20s who died
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