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On the afternoon of 22 May 2013, a British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was attacked and killed by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London.〔 Rigby was off duty and walking along Wellington Street when he was attacked. Adebolajo and Adebowale ran him down with a car, then used knives and a cleaver to stab and hack him to death. The men dragged Rigby's body into the road and remained at the scene until police arrived. They told passers-by that they had killed a soldier to avenge the killing of Muslims by the British armed forces. Unarmed police arrived at the scene nine minutes after an emergency call was received and set up a cordon. Armed police officers arrived five minutes later. The assailants, armed with a cleaver and brandishing a gun, charged at the police, who fired shots that wounded them both. They were apprehended and taken to separate hospitals.〔 Adebolajo and Adebowale are British of Nigerian descent, raised as Christians, who converted to Islam.〔(Woolwich Suspects 'Known To Security Services' ), Sky, 23 May 2013〕 On 19 December 2013, both of the attackers were found guilty of Rigby's murder.〔 On 26 February 2014, they were sentenced to life imprisonment, with Adebolajo given a whole life order and Adebowale ordered to serve at least 45 years.〔 The attack was condemned by political and Muslim leaders in the United Kingdom and in the international press. ==Victim== The soldier killed in the attack was 25-year-old Lee Rigby, a drummer and machine-gunner in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Rigby, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, had served in Cyprus, Germany, and Afghanistan before becoming a recruiter and assisting with duties in the Tower of London. He was attacked when he was returning to barracks from working at the Tower. Rigby married in 2007 and had a two-year-old son, but had separated from his wife.〔Silverman, Rosa. (23 May 2013) (Soldier murdered in Woolwich ). ''The Daily Telegraph''.〕 He was engaged to a new fiancée at the time of his death. A post-mortem examination showed that Rigby died from "multiple incised wounds". Rigby supported British Armed Forces charity Help for Heroes and was wearing a hoodie supporting the charity when he was attacked. In the five days after his death the charity received more than £600,000 in donations. Rigby was given a military funeral at Bury Parish Church on 12 July 2013. The service was attended by several thousand people, including present and former soldiers, Prime Minister David Cameron, and Mayor of London Boris Johnson. A private burial service was then held at nearby Middleton Cemetery. The first permanent memorial to him was installed in February 2014 at The Valley, a football stadium less than from the site of his murder. On 1 September 2014, Rigby was honoured at a ceremony in Staffordshire, with his name added to the Armed Forces Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum.〔(Lee Rigby's name engraved into Britain's largest military memorial | Mail Online )〕 Plans for a memorial to Rigby in Woolwich initially ran into opposition from local MP Nick Raynsford, who expressed concerns that it would generate "undesirable interest" or become a target for vandals.〔"(Boris backs calls for a memorial to honour Lee Rigby )" 22 May 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.〕 Greenwich Council said that it had not received a request from the Army to erect a memorial at the site.〔"(Lee Rigby murder: Calls for Woolwich memorial rejected )" BBC News, 21 May 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2014.〕 Following a campaign for a memorial supported by Boris Johnson and a petition with 25,000 signatures, plans for a memorial near the site of the attack were announced on 11 June 2014.〔(Lee Rigby memorial: victory at last for campaigners - Telegraph )〕 In April 2015, Greenwich Council said that rather than creating a memorial specific to Rigby's memory, it would "create two memorials to both soldiers and civilians from the Royal Borough who have given their lives for our country".〔 |〕 A memorial to Rigby in his home town of Middleton was unveiled on 29 March 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murder of Lee Rigby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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