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|goals = Trigger a race war (failed) | |goals = Trigger a race war (failed) | ||
|crimes = [[Murder]]<br>Domestic [[terrorism]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Negrophobia]] | |crimes = [[Murder]]<br>Domestic [[terrorism]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Negrophobia]] | ||
|hobby = Making bombs|skills = Above-Average Intellect}}'''David Peter Copeland''' (May 15th, 1976 - ) is a English [[ | |hobby = Making bombs|skills = Above-Average Intellect}}'''David Peter Copeland''' (May 15th, 1976 - ) is a English Neo-[[Nazi]]/[[White supremacy|white supremacist]] militant who became known as '''The London Nail Bomber''' after using bombs in three different days, 17, 24 and 30 April 1999, causing injuries against blacks, Asians, and gay people. He was a former member of the [[BNP]] and the UK National Socialist Movement. His attacks are inspired by the novel ''The Turner Diaries'' by [[William Luther Pierce]] of National Alliance, Copeland has read the book to make and detonate bombs. | ||
Copeland maintained he had worked alone and had not discussed his plans with anyone. During police interviews, he admitted holding neo-Nazi views, and talked of his desire to spread fear and trigger a race war. He told police, "My main intent was to spread fear, resentment and hatred throughout this country; it was to cause a racial war." He said, "If you've read The Turner Diaries, you know the year 2000 there'll be the uprising and all that, racial violence on the streets. My aim was political. It was to cause a racial war in this country. There'd be a backlash from the ethnic minorities, then all the white people will go out and vote BNP." | Copeland maintained he had worked alone and had not discussed his plans with anyone. During police interviews, he admitted holding neo-[[Nazi]] views, and talked of his desire to spread fear and trigger a race war. He told police, "My main intent was to spread fear, resentment and hatred throughout this country; it was to cause a racial war." He said, "If you've read The Turner Diaries, you know the year 2000 there'll be the uprising and all that, racial violence on the streets. My aim was political. It was to cause a racial war in this country. There'd be a backlash from the ethnic minorities, then all the white people will go out and vote BNP." | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Copeland was born on 15 May 1976, in Hanworth in the London Borough of Hounslow, to a working-class couple. His father was an engineer and his mother was a housewife. He lived for most of his childhood with his parents and two brothers in Yateley, Hampshire, attending Yateley School, where he obtained seven GCSEs before leaving in 1992. Journalist Nick Ryan wrote that, as a teenager, Copeland feared he was homosexual; when his parents sang along to ''The Flintstones'' theme on television—"we'll have a gay old time"—he reportedly believed they were sending him a message. | Copeland was born on 15 May 1976, in Hanworth in the London Borough of Hounslow, to a working-class couple. His father was an engineer and his mother was a housewife. He lived for most of his childhood with his parents and two brothers in Yateley, Hampshire, attending Yateley School, where he obtained seven GCSEs before leaving in 1992. Journalist Nick Ryan wrote that, as a teenager, Copeland feared he was homosexual; when his parents sang along to ''The Flintstones'' theme on television—"we'll have a gay old time"—he reportedly believed they were sending him a message. | ||