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Old October 16th, 2012 #801
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A policeman subjected a young black man to a racist tirade while he was under arrest during last summer’s riots, a court was told yesterday.

PC Alex MacFarlane, 53, was secretly recorded on a mobile phone telling Mauro Demetrio, ‘You will always be a n*****.’ He also told the 21-year-old: ‘Don’t hide behind your colour.’

The two brief audio recordings were played to a jury at Southwark Crown Court as the veteran riot squad officer went on trial yesterday.



Accused: Pc Alex MacFarlane, pictured, denies racially abusing Mauro Demetrio and boasting about sleeping with his mother

He admits using the language but denies causing racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress on the grounds it was not racist and did not upset Mr Demetrio.

Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson said the defendant was a serving police officer and obliged to remain ‘calm and professional’ despite being abused by Mr Demetrio.

He said: ‘Such words were designed to cause distress and insult. They were designed to suggest to Mr Demetrio he was inferior to the officer because of the colour of his skin.’



The confrontation took place in front of up to ten officers in a police van in Beckton, East London, on August 11 last year.

Mr Demetrio was pulled over on suspicion of drug-driving at the tail end of the four days of disorder that swept the capital.

Officers handcuffed him when a radio check revealed he was wanted for drugs offences and skipping a magistrates’ court hearing.


Once inside the van Mr Demetrio began to record a foul-mouthed exchange with the officers as they drove to Forest Gate police station.

MacFarlane is heard telling the suspect he would die within five years before making crude references to having had sex with his mother.

When Mr Demetrio talks back, saying the officer will soon die of old age, MacFarlane says: ‘The problem with you is you will always be a n*****.’

He adds: ‘Don’t hide behind your colour, be proud of who you are.’ Mr Demetrio said other officers laughed at previous remarks but not that one.

Mr Demetrio told the court: ‘I really felt violated.’ Mr Atkinson said: ‘The defendant was well aware this was a word that could be deeply hurtful and demeaning and should not be used.’

The trial is expected to last two or three days.
Read more:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218044/Met-policeman-boasted-having-sex-suspects-mother-racially-abusing-night-London-riots.html
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Only 15 of the hundreds of foreigners who took part in the riots of 2011 have been deported, the Mail can reveal.

Ministers had promised to get tough after violence and mayhem tore apart English cities, but the vast majority of overseas nationals who joined in the destruction are still here.

A combination of EU law and human rights rules is thought to be blocking efforts to deport them and could lead to large numbers being granted the right to stay.



While officials have managed to kick out 15 of the rioters, another 31 have been told they can remain in the country despite their crimes.

More than 200 foreign criminals were convicted for their part in the riots in which shops were plundered, businesses set ablaze and hundreds of millions of pounds of damage done.

Among the offences they carried out were burglary, robbery, theft, criminal damage and disorder. If the remaining cases follow the same pattern – of one rioter kicked out for every two who remain – it would mean more than 130 ending up staying in Britain.



Many remain behind bars at a cost to tax-payers of tens of thousands of pounds a week – but more than 80 are at large having been released. And three convicted foreign rioters have been ‘lost’ by the UK Border Agency after failing to comply with bail conditions.

Ministers had pledged to take tough action to kick out foreign criminals as quickly as possible after the riots in August 2011 which began in Tottenham, north London and spread across the country into several nights of carnage.

Home Office minister Damian Green said at the time: ‘We strongly believe that foreign national lawbreakers should be removed from the UK at the earliest opportunity.

‘We also have the power to cancel visas of foreign nationals found guilty of criminal activity, and this is something we will be looking to do when these cases arise.’

In the following months, it emerged that non-UK nationals played a central role in the mayhem. Figures from the courts showed one in seven of all convicted rioters was from overseas.

The Ministry of Justice released a list showing 44 nationalities of convicted rioters, including those from Afghanistan, Cuba, Ethiopia and Samoa.

The largest group was Jamaicans, followed by Somali and Polish offenders.

Other rioters came from Colombia, Iraq, the Congo, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.

The true number of foreign nationals may be even higher as 4 per cent of those taken into remand during the riots refused to tell police their nationality.

The UKBA has set up a special unit, known as Operation Lancaster, to track down and remove foreigners involved in ‘serious criminality’.



But figures released after a request under the Freedom of Information Act show their record to date is lamentably poor.

Of the 201 cases passed to UKBA, only 15 have been kicked out. Some 28 have been given permission to stay because they ‘do not meet deportation criteria’.

Three others have been allowed to remain after legal appeals. A total of 63 are still in prison, or in immigration detention awaiting deportation.


The fact that they are still behind bars suggests officials are more confident of eventually removing them.

Another 53 are at large but classed as ‘still being considered for deportation’. There are 31 who have been given temporary admission while their cases are considered.

The three who have absconded have not been named and officials refused to reveal any further details. Five others are still waiting to be sentenced.

EU rules prevent officials even trying to deport any European nationals sentenced to less than two years in prison.

Non-EU nationals do not qualify for automatic deportation unless they were jailed for at least 12 months.

Peter Cuthbertson, director of the think-tank the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: ‘The average rioter in 2011 had already committed 15 offences, so the public have a right to expect them to be punished properly.

They will be appalled by these figures, which show just how important it is to fix our human rights laws.’

Last night, immigration minister Mark Harper said: ‘Many of those convicted of involvement in last summer’s riots are still behind bars – that’s where they belong.

‘We are pursuing deportation in scores of cases and wherever possible, when they have paid their debt to society, we will remove them from the UK.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276686/The-rioters-kick-18-months-mayhem-shocked-Britain-just-15-200-convicted-foreigners-deported.html


Only 200 of them were foreign? Funny, I remember seeing the photographs and the majority of them didn't look British.
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Two foreign rioters jailed for their part in England's civil unrest two years ago have foiled attempts to deport them by citing their human right to 'family life'.

The successful appeals by Ubong-Luke Nkanta, of south-east London, and a second man, who has been granted anonymity, defy the Government's pledge to deport any foreign national convicted over the 2011 disturbances.

Critics say the decisions sharply contradict official efforts to take exemplary action against those involved in the outbreaks of violence in London and elsewhere that summer.


Government anger over the use of Article Eight of the Human Rights Act, which enshrines the right to a family life, has prompted Home Secretary Theresa May to draft new laws to stop foreign criminals avoiding deportation.

Ministers believe judges will be unable to ignore the new legislation, as they appear to have ignored rules introduced last July that they should only allow the use of Article Eight in 'exceptional circumstances'.


Immigration Minister Mark Harper said today: 'Any foreign national who abuses the privilege of coming to the UK by committing a serious offence should face the consequences.

'Many of those convicted of involvement in the 2011 summer's riots are still behind bars - that's where they belong.

'We are pursuing deportation in scores of cases and wherever possible we will remove them from the UK — regardless of whether they have family here.

'We are disappointed with this judgment and that is why this Government will bring forward primary legislation to prevent foreign nationals remaining in the UK through abuse of the Human Rights Act.

'We are also looking at appeals to make sure that foreign nationals cannot misuse the legal system and the courts in bids to stay in the country.'


The latest cases, reported in the Sunday Telegraph, highlight the arguments used which are causing the Home Office such frustration.

In the first case, Nigerian-born Ubong-Luke Nkanta, from Thamesmead, was in November 2011 jailed for 18 months for burglary during the riots in London.

The 25-year-old entered a building which was being looted by rioters but did not steal anything because, he told the court, 'there was nothing left to take'.

The Home Office began deportation proceedings against him as he approached his release from jail last summer, but he appealed against the move by citing his 'right to a family life'.

He argued his relationship with his two biological children in the UK as well as his current partner's children meant his human rights would be breached if he was deported.

The lower immigration tribunal agreed and, following an appeal by the Home Office, the decision was upheld by Upper Immigration Tribunal Judge Isabel Murray.

The second case is of a Zimbabwean who can only be named as 'TS' after senior immigration judges granted him anonymity - despite the fact criminal courts had allowed him to be named.

He was convicted of violent disorder and jailed for 15 months after joining a group of 30 to 50 youths who rampaged through two Buckinghamshire towns in copy cat riots three days after the initial outbreak of violence in Tottenham.

The gang, which was later described in court as a 'mindless mob', swept through Milton Keynes and Bletchley launching attacks on vehicles and shops, including a Chinese takeaway whose owners were robbed of their takings.

TS was identified as one of the main culprits who launched an attack on a bus which left its driver 'frightened for her life' as they kicked the vehicle and pelted it with rocks.


Ministers had pledged to take tough action to kick out foreign criminals as quickly as possible after the riots in August 2011 which began in Tottenham, north London and spread across the country into several nights of carnage.

More than 200 foreign criminals were convicted for their part in the riots in which shops were plundered, businesses set ablaze and hundreds of millions of pounds of damage done.

Home Office minister Damian Green said at the time: ‘We strongly believe that foreign national lawbreakers should be removed from the UK at the earliest opportunity.

‘We also have the power to cancel visas of foreign nationals found guilty of criminal activity, and this is something we will be looking to do when these cases arise.’

In the following months, it emerged that non-UK nationals played a central role in the mayhem. Figures from the courts showed one in seven of all convicted rioters was from overseas.

The Ministry of Justice released a list showing 44 nationalities of convicted rioters, including those from Afghanistan, Cuba, Ethiopia and Samoa.

The largest group was Jamaicans, followed by Somali and Polish offenders. Other rioters came from Colombia, Iraq, the Congo, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mily-life.html


I still don't understand what's stopping their families from going with them?

Hey, Call-Me - have you thought about scrapping the Human Rights Act? I mean, you mentioned scrapping it for a day in order to get rid of Qatada, but if you scrapped it full stop, you could get rid of the lot of 'em.
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A teenager who took part in the London Riots has been jailed for a minimum of 12 years after murdering an innocent painter and decorator in a gang feud.

Wesley Brooks, now 18, joined an armed mob of up to 20 masked youths in the attack on 21-year-old painter and decorator Andrew Jaipaul.

Mr Jaipaul, an aspiring fashion designer, was chased into a children’s play area and knifed 25 times in the head, chest and legs.

He had no known gang connections and was simply ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time.’

His attackers, who were associated with the ‘Busy Block’ gang from Archway, north London, were trying to get revenge on their rivals from the ‘Wray Kray’ and ‘Crouch Hall’ gangs from Holloway.

Although there was no forensic evidence linking anyone to the fatal attack, detectives identified members of the gang by scouring hundreds of hours of CCTV footage and matching it with eyewitness evidence.

Brooks was one of five young men jailed for a total of at least 62 years for the murder of Mr Jaipaul.

He was on police bail for the killing when he joined rioters in a attack on a Tesco’s store in Holloway during the August 2011 riots in the capital.

For his involvement in the riots - violent disorder and the burglary of a bottle of alcohol - he was sentenced to a 12-month detention and training order.

The other defendants convicted of murder include rapper Tommy McInerney, 21, a leading figure in the Busy Block, who was jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years.

Jojo Mafwa, 19, was detained for a minimum of 12 years before parole, while Tirrell Ball-Thomas, 18, was detained for a minimum of 11 years.

A 15 year-old boy - who was just 13 at the time of the murder and cannot be identified - was detained for at least nine years.

Brooks's brother Warren Brooks, 23, was jailed for seven years for conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm.


Judge Gerald Gordon said: ‘It is clear that those at the heart of this attack were directly focused on what they were there to do - select a victim and attack him as a group, using a number of knives.

‘That is what happened within a very short time of arrival within the area.

‘There is no direct evidence any of you were physically involved or present at the immediate scene but you were at least very close by.

‘It was in that way that Andrew Jaipaul, who was just 21 and with no known connection to gangs, met a truly terrifying death, the thought of which will always haunt his family.

‘This sort of gang related hostility, with tit for tat attacks of increasing severity, is far too common on the streets of London.


‘Numerous attempts are made to try and stamp it out or encourage people to change their ways and those who resist by continuing such violence must expect to face the consequences of doing so.’

The judge said the sentences were reduced because each of them could only be said to have played a secondary role.

In a victim impact statement, Mr Jaipaul’s mother Joanna described Andrew as ‘a loving and loved son, a brother, a loyal friend to many.'

She added: ‘It is very difficult to put into words the enormous loss and grief that the family feel. That grief is totally overwhelming.

‘As a family we know that we have to move on with our lives and that will always be difficult when such an important part of our lives will be forever missing.’

Tragically his father Godwin died before the case came to court and did not see his killers brought to justice.


The Busy Block had vowed revenge after one of their senior members, Michael Munza, was stabbed in the buttocks by members of the rival ‘Wray Kray’ and ‘Crouch Hall’ gangs.

Local residents saw a group of up to 20 youths wielding pieces of wood heading towards the Andover Estate in Holloway, north London, at around 10pm on 26 June 2011.

Mr Jaipaul happened to be walking home through the estate when he was confronted by the gang.

Prosecutor Zoe Johnson QC said: ‘Andrew Jaipaul was minding his own business when, out of nowhere, a large, armed gang came across him, decided to attack him, chased him down and brutally murdered him near a children’s play area.

‘As members of the group left they were heard to shout, “Busy Block”.’

One witness living near the scene in Corker Walk described hearing a noise like the sound of a crowd cheering at a football stadium.

A total of 20 youths were arrested and eight of them were charged with murder.

Allan Kalema, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, faces a retrial for murder in September after the jury failed to reach verdicts in his case.

An eighth defendant Orville Sterling, 18, of Enfield, was cleared of murder on the direction of the judge at the close of the prosecution case due to lack of evidence.

Several other youths await trial on a charge of violent disorder.

Police have not released an image of Wesley Brooks as he was under 18 at the time of the offence.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-12-years.html

How do you get bail for murder but remanded for "racist tram ranting"?
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A foreign criminal who was jailed for his part in the London riots has used human rights laws to overturn attempts to deport him.

Derrick Kinsasi was jailed for 18 months for burglary and theft from a branch of Comet during the August 2011 riots.

But his lawyers have successfully argued that sending the criminal, who has no wife and no children, back to the Democratic Republic of Congo would 'breach his rights to family life' under the Human Rights Act.

The Daily Telegraph reports that senior immigration judge Nathan Goldstein said the 21 year-old could stay in Britain, because to remove him had 'echoes of exile'.



Kinsasi told the Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber that he came to Britain with his brother in 2002 to claim asylum.

He was refused, but was granted 'exceptional leave to remain' in 2006.

In October 2011 Kinsasi was jailed for 18 months, for his part in the London riots.

According to court papers, Kinsasi - who currently lives with his mother and two brothers - was caught by police as he tried to break into a branch of the electrical good store Comet to take 'high value portable desirable items'.

Under government rules all foreign national jailed for 12 months or more should be sent back to their home countries.

In November 2011, officials told Kinsasi that he was liable for automatic deportation.

The right to 'Family life' under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights is enshrined in British law in the Human Rights Act and argues that everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.



Officials said that Kinsasi was not entitled to argue the right as he had no evidence of dependency 'beyond normal emotional ties'.

He appealed to the lower immigration tribunal, but it upheld the Home Secretary's decision to deport him.

But he then launched another appeal in the Upper Tribunal, in which he told Judges he had 'no one to go back to' in the Democratic Republic of Congo and had a 'good life here'.

Judge Goldstein reversed the previous ruling, allowing the appeal.

The judge said: 'The consequence of his removal to the DRC would amount to a splitting of the family unit.'


Kinsasi's lawyers have successfully argued that sending the criminal, who has no wife and no children, back to the Democratic Republic of Congo would 'breach his rights to family life' under the Human Rights Act.

'I find that removing him to the DRC has echoes of ‘exile’ rather than exclusion and it is unlikely to be proportionate.'

The ruling means Kinsasi will be able to remain here indefinitely.

A Home Office spokesman said: 'We are disappointed with this judgment. This kind of case is precisely why we are looking to change the law in the new Immigration Bill which will be introduced later this year.

'We want to ensure the courts properly reflect Parliament's view that serious criminals should be deported unless there are very exceptional circumstances.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mily-life.html


Good old Judge Goldstein.
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A London mayor has apologised after claiming the riots of 2011 were ‘the best thing that’s happened in Tottenham for a while’.



The death of Mark Duggan sparked riots across the country (Picture: PA)


Sheila Peacock, who was elected as the Labour mayor of Haringey Council earlier this year, made the comments in a documentary released in June.

They only recently came to light, however, when Tottenham councillor Alan Stanton posted the video on a community forum, prompting angry responses from local residents.

‘The second riots that we’ve just had was the best thing that’s happened in Tottenham for a while,’ said Cllr Peacock.

‘My reason for saying that is, all of a sudden, the government is now starting to pump money into Tottenham, because Haringey is an outer London Borough so we don’t get as much money as Islington or Hackney, and we’ve been struggling for years.’

The documentary- What’s Wrong with Tottenham? – was created by north London resident Anthony Tim Ogunmuyiwa to address the media’s ‘negative stereotype of the community’ following the riots.

Richard Wilson, the leader of the Liberal Democrats at Haringey Council, said the comments were ‘extremely insensitive to the victims of the riots.’
New riots 'only a matter of time', author warns


Councillor Peacock claimed the riots were good for Tottenham (Picture: EPA)

Mr Stanton, a Labour councillor for Tottenham Hale, added they were ‘hurtful to people in Tottenham’.

‘Especially those who lost their homes, businesses and in some cases nearly lost their lives,’ he added.

‘And to all of us who were scared and worried and sick at heart about the damage to the place where we live in and care about.’

The wave of riots, arson and looting, quickly spread from Tottenham to cities across the country and is estimated to have cost the taxpayer £300million.

Cllr Peacock has since apologised for the comments.

‘As many people know, I have lived all of my life in Tottenham and am very proud to be an ambassador for the area I love,’ she said.

‘It was certainly not my intention for my comments to cause any offence, and I’m very sorry if they did.’
(Bolding - this just appeared in the middle of the copy/paste. When I looked at the properties info for the second picture, it's the title of the photo but I can't find the, if any, associated story. New riots 'only a matter of time', author warns )

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The second riots that we’ve just had was the best thing that’s happened in Tottenham for a while,’ said Cllr Peacock.

‘My reason for saying that is, all of a sudden, the government is now starting to pump money into Tottenham, because Haringey is an outer London Borough so we don’t get as much money as Islington or Hackney, and we’ve been struggling for years.’
My, what expensive pets these negros are!

How long till the money runs out?

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Every year at this time, the UK celebrates its Caribbean heritage at the Notting Hill Carnival. The country also holds its collective breath, many worrying that the mass revelry could turn into a violent street fight.

The event had its origins in trouble. The first Caribbean Carnival was held in 1959 at St. Pancras Town Hall in response to the Notting Hill race riots of the previous year, when roving gangs of right wing white youth attacked West Indians during over two weeks of street battles. In 1976, after the festival had moved outdoors, black youth clashed with police who had attempted to arrest a suspected pickpocket. Despite the subsequent passage of the Race Relations Act, black Britons continued to feel harassed by the police and stung by a general atmosphere of disdain during the long period of racial unrest that led to the Brixton and Toxteth riots of the 1980s. The Notting Hill Carnival witnessed occasional disturbances into the twenty-first century, and has been associated in many people's minds with other great urban riots and uprisings, including those that tore through the United Kingdom in August 2011. Mostly, however, Carnival has just been a brilliant occasion to have a good time.

Worries about Carnival often stem from the difficulty of distinguishing crime from politics, and telling a riot from a rebellion. This is made even tougher by a long tradition of viewing all black protests as if they were the same, explosions of disorder without justification or clear intention. Contrary to popular belief, many black uprisings have resulted from careful strategy and tactics in response to genuine grievances.

This has been the case since at least the 18th Century, when a major slave revolt in Jamaica attacked the heart of the British Empire. In 1760, more than fifteen hundred enslaved black men and women took advantage of Britain's Seven Year's War against France and Spain to stage a massive uprising in Jamaica, which began in April and continued until October of the next year. Over those eighteen months rebels destroyed vast amounts of property and killed as many as sixty whites. As with more recent disturbances in London, people at the time debated whether the rebellion was a spontaneous eruption or a carefully planned affair. Historians still debate the question today, their task made more difficult by the lack of written records produced by the insurgents themselves.

Now, however, a new alliance between historians and mapmakers promises to enlighten the public perception of black insurrection. With the help of cartographers, historians can analyse this slave revolt by plotting its movements on thematic maps that reveal the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency. A new map of the 1760-1761 slave insurrection in Jamaica shows that the island's topography shaped the course of the revolt, that the rebellion included at least three distinct uprisings, and that its suppression required the sequenced collaboration of several distinct elements of British military power. From the cartographic evidence, it appears that the insurrection was in fact a well-planned affair that posed a genuine strategic threat, checked ultimately by an effective counterinsurgency.

Since the days of black bondage, in the former slave societies of the Atlantic world, black freedom struggles have often been described as riots and rampages. Such descriptions tie centuries-old images of black violence to modern stereotypes about black people's propensity to crime and provide a handy justification for denying legitimate claims to political participation and rights. By applying new methods of research, we might dispel these misconceptions. If historians and cartographers can find new explanations for Caribbean uprisings that happened more than 250 years ago, it should be much easier to understand more recent events, with our newfound access to geo-coded data and mapping software.

Mapping other uprisings can help us to better understand the politics of such events so that we can be less afraid of every street party. But most importantly, understanding black rebellions will make it easier to recognize and address the conditions that compel people to go to war against their own societies.

Vincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the principal investigator and curator for the animated thematic map Slave Revolt in Jamaica,
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The Labour Party,Britain’s main opposition, has announced that more than 130 people who demanded compensation in the aftermath of London riots in 2011 are yet to receive a single penny.

On Saturday, the opposition said of all claims, less than 16 per cent of the requested cash has been paid out more than two years after chaos, violence and looting that swept across the British capital.

The recent figures, uncovered by Shadow Home Office Minister Steve Reed through freedom of information requests to the Metropolitan Police, exposed that 3,447 claims had been made by March 31, 2013, and 3,535 claims by November 6, 2013.

By March 31, 2013, £250.1 million had been claimed, and by November 6, 2013, claims had peaked £299 million.

Cash totals paid out by the Metropolitan Police were £35.8 million (14.3%) on March 31, 2013, and £46.9 million (15.7%) on November 6, 2013.

The total number of outstanding claims on November 6, 2013, was 133.

Reed said the figures reveal that Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson had gone back on promises made to riot victims.

"With the eyes of the country on him, David Cameron promised the victims of the riots they would not be forgotten and would not be left out of pocket. It's disgraceful there are still residents and business owners in London facing financial hardship because they have received either too little compensation or nothing at all,” he said.


"David Cameron has failed to keep his promise to the victims, the very least he could do is meet them, look them in the eye and explain why," Reed noted.


The death of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old black man, by the London police triggered the massive 2011 summer unrest across England.

The police in the northern London district of Tottenham stopped the minicab carrying Duggan on August 4, 2011, shooting the father-of-four dead.

Officers claimed at the time they shot him on suspicion he was planning an attack and that Duggan was in possession of a handgun, which was never found.

The incident triggered the worst social unrest Britain faced in a generation, unleashing street protests, fighting with the police and arson attacks across England.
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