Tate Gallery yesterday

For heaven’s sake, stop blaming Brexit for events like this!
What utter, utter rubbish!

Appalling post notallhere nothing more to say really.

notentirelyallhere, your post is idiotic, there are a huge number of French residing in and around London, the largest gathering of that nationality outside France I believe. You seriously think this random act of aggression was triggered by hearing French spoken, amongst the multitude of other languages anyone in London will hear. We can't know what triggered such an awful happening, but I suspect mental health issues, hallucinatory drugs.

I hope the little boy makes a full physical recovery, no doubt he will be mentally scarred by what has happened to him, but our hearts go out to him and his mother.

I feel for both families. Imagine the horror of going for a visit to the gallery and it ending with your little boy badly hurt in a traumatic event, and the other family ending the day knowing their son has done such a thing to the other child.

Thankfully the little boy is making a recovery from his physical injuries, but he and his family will clearly need support to overcome what happened. All out of the blue on what was supposed to be a lovely outing. Unbelievable.

Notentirelyallthere
An appalling, insensitive, racist, cheap, thoughtless, even brainless post which trivialises a potentially tragic situation and shows no understanding whatsoever.
How can you sink so low?
If my post is deleted so be it, but I would not take one syllable back ???

Well said MawB

It's not your post which should be deleted MawB.
You are absolutely right.

Well said MawB ( and others ) it’s a disgraceful post, but why aren’t I surprised, given the hysteria surrounding Brexit on forums.

Well, I admit my first thought on hearing the boy was French was to wonder whether the teenager belonged to an extreme right group of the type that attacks people they hear speaking Polish (or any other non-English language) - in other words someone suffering for extreme xenophobia. It was only a thought. It is just as likely that the attacker has extreme mental health problems of a quite different sort. No doubt we’ll find out eventually

The little boy has a bleed on the brain and a broken back. It is incredibly sad. The teenage boy is in court today charged with attempted murder.

It has been reported that the teenager was allegedly a schizophrenic patient who should not have been allowed out without two carers.

It is just dreadful, tragic.