Teenager shouts 'Allahu Akbar' as he tries to grab Olympic flame

[Mujraparty]

Teenager shouts 'Allahu Akbar' as he tries to grab Olympic flame from torch bearer's hands as police bundle runner to safety


A 17-year-old shouted 'Allahu Akbar' - Arabic for 'God is Great' - as he unsuccessfully tried to grab the Olympic torch during a stretch of the flame's route through Maidstone towards Redhill.

Broadcast live on the BBC, the youth lunged from the crowd to try to take the torch from the hands of its bearer Anna Skora, but was swiftly bundled away by officers.

In one video posted to YouTube he can be seen waiting behind a car and as Ms Skora gets closer he lunges towards the torch.

Ms Skora was about to hand over the torch to Graham White, a Surrey charity worker, when the teenager burst out of the crowd and tried to grab it.

He managed to get through the line of police officers escorting the torch as it headed through the town.

One of the officers at the back of the group swiftly grabbed hold of Ms Skora and the torch, guiding them to the opposite side of the road.

Four or five of the other torch guards then bundled the man to the side of the road where he was then arrested.

Ms Skora managed to keep the torch upright throughout the ordeal and she continued to smile as she completed her stretch of the Olympic flame relay.


The incident happened as the torch was being taken into Gravesend on Friday morning.

Ms Skora was able to keep hold of the torch as the youth tried to wrestle it from her grasp, and security and police officers stepped in to protect the torch bearer and bundle away the youth.

The youth, from Gravesend, is currently being held in custody and the torch continued on its way without disruption, Kent Police said.

A Kent Police spokesman said: 'At around 9.55am a man apparently attempted to take the Olympic Flame from a Torchbearer in Rochester Road.

'The man, who is from Gravesend, was arrested within seconds and is now in the custody of Kent Police.
'No one was injured in the incident and the Torch continued on its way without disruption


Read more: London 2012 Olympics: Youth tries to grab flame from torch bearer | Mail Online

 

[Skull and Bones]

Bwahahaha...

 

[Rusty]

lol
Kids these days.
He will have a funny story to tell his friends later.

 

[gubbi]

Seriously!? What a douche bag!! What exactly was the purpose for that kind of irrational behavior? No wonder such misguided and misinformed "youth" are the but t of jokes..

 

[zimmick]

Flaming Olympics haven`t even started yet and im sick to death of hearing about it Zzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Safriz]

olympic troll

 

[jetti]

lol
Kids these days.
He will have a funny story to tell his friends later.

its more seious than that.. it shows that britain is getting radicalised with islamic youth. that the muslims have not integrated into mainstream of the host countries like anywhere else. this needs closer attention from the govt.

 

[jbond197]

Scary TBH!! What if he had an under belt on?

 

[xataxsata]

Was he carrying explosives???

 

[KRAIT]

....
If torch comes to India, one should lunge shouting "Har Har Mahadev"....its about religion now....

Bring it on....

 

[asad71]

With one third of humanity involved we haven't heard a single voice from the Muslim leadership seeking shifting of Olympic schedule by a fortnight. Not the participants alone, the spectators are also affected.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Idiot. Trying to impress his freinds or somthing, got what he derserved- slammed to the the floor and made to look a fool.

 

[Fazlu]

An Olympic troll !

 

[jetti]

needs to spend the rest of his life in state prison for trying to radicalise the country thus treason

 

[Bhairava]

What is his ethnicity ?