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    Family of Saudi student stabbed to death says UK is not safe for visitors

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    1. sippinnonlemonjuice on

      Seeing how many people are running around Edinburgh during the Fringe, I’d disagree.

    4. Reasonable_Blood6959 on

      Eh, at least we don’t murder and dismember journalists who dare to criticise the “government”

    5. Automatic_Ad6943 on

      We need to do better at keeping visitors safe as country,we need to strive to be a safer country

    6. LonelyStranger8467 on

      Saudi students come here fully funded by their government/royal family. Including the royal family. They pay high fees, commit no crimes and they go home after receiving their education and experiencing British culture. Pretty much ideal foreign students.

      You can say what you want about the way Saudi Arabia is run, but it’s definitely safer. People will be discouraged to visit. They’re saying this was an unprovoked attack.

    7. FloydEGag on

      I wouldn’t feel especially safe as a woman in Saudi either, thanks.

      But I do feel sorry for his family, they think he’s just going to have a nice time studying abroad and the poor guy gets stabbed. He was horribly unlucky but I don’t think it means the UK is unsafe for visitors.

    8. clubbinglad on

      Odd comments on here, either way he’s right. He was
      Only 20 years old, absolutely saddening what’s happening

    9. Salt_Vehicle_5395 on

      I actually live around the corner from the place this happened and actually saw the police investigating the scene early the morning after. It’s not an unsafe area at all. I’ve literally never had a problem with the exception of a a chav or two pretending they’re about to hit me with a bike when doing a wheelie coming down the pavement.

      I wonder if in this case it is more the event/summer school they had going on at the time attracted a couple of thugs who thought they could take advantage of some international students. It’s well known they all come from money (its tens of thousands to attend summer schools in Cambridge) and this particular one had big banners in the area pointing the students where to go all the way to the building. I wonder if some thugs thought they could mug a rich kid and things went wrong. Tragic either way though. Must be awful to send your kid to a foreign country for education and then this happens.

      The police have arrested two people already so hopefully they got them but it’s awful for the family for sure.

    10. Next_Replacement_566 on

      Less policing and policy changes so that saying stuff on the internet is ‘more dangerous’ than doing physical policing.

    11. Barrilete_Cosmico on

      Fair enough. If my family was stabbed in a foreign country I’d probably think that country is not safe too.

    12. WritingMaleficent722 on

      I was almost robbed of £30 grands worth of equipment by a traveller. Thankfully i caught up and jumped in the waiting car, got it back.

      England is the only country that tolerates them so much. Go to eastern europe and no one gives them the light of day because they know what will happen.

    13. Savage-September on

      Wow. Even the Saudis are saying stay away. A bit rich coming from the beheading capital of the world.

    14. Alarmed_Ste on

      To be fair, if my kid was stabbed to death in any country I’d say it’s unsafe.

      Bit mental people are trying to disagree with this.

    16. Arcon1337 on

      You wouldn’t be safe in Saudi if you made fun of their imaginary friend. If anything, they’d make you dissappear.

    17. ValeteAria on

      Lmao what is with the comments here. Why are people acting like this student and his family represent the Saudi state lmao.

      Their relative got stabbed to death, so yeah thats the logical conclusion that any mourning family would have of the country in which their relative got killed.

      I dont think they claimed that Saudi-Arabia was the bastion of free speech.

    18. Efficient_Ant_7279 on

      It feels like it could get out of hand tbh. Especially when people’s response to something like this is rather “Well In Saudi Arabia the police can abduct you for nothing” instead of looking at how unsafe our country is becoming. Yeah their country is stupidly far far from perfect but that isn’t the point here is it.