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Folk smides foran tog. Nu kastes små børn også ned fra højhuse. En 6-årig blev sidst fredag revet ud af armene på sin mor og kastet fem etager lodret ned. Drengens tilstand er kritisk, men han er udenfor livsfare.

Drengen har fået ryg og hjerneskader, blev det oplyst tirsdag.

Britisk politi har pågrebet en 17-årig, mistænkt for at have kastet en seks år gammel dreng ned fra tagterrassen på ellevte etage på Tate Modern Museum i London. Han fremstilles for retten torsdag.

Den seksårige, som er fransk og var på besøg i London sammen med familien, blev fundet på taget af galleriets sjette etage søndag eftermiddag.

Folk blev hysteriske, da de forstod, hvad der var foregået. Manden havde forfulgt barnet rundt i museet og vakt ubehag.

Nancy Barnfield said she and her two young sons were stalked on the viewing platform by a stranger only seconds before the horrifying incident.

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The 47-year-old from Rochdale was so alarmed that she warned her children to avoid him.

She said: ‘He followed us around everywhere. I told my kids to stay away from that man, it went on for ages. He was acting so weird. He had his hands behind his back the whole time, his back to the wall, just watching people. We walked away from him then immediately when he was out of sight a woman was screaming ‘My son, my son’ and people were grabbing him.’

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The child was snatched from his mother’s arms by a stranger who hurled him over a barrier on the tenth floor.

The mother screamed ‘My son, my son’ before rushing to the lifts to try to reach him. He fell 100ft on to a roof on the fifth floor.

Politiet troede oprindeligt at den 17-årige var en del af familien og førte ham til en café. Men et vidne blev så forbandet, at han slog til teenageren, som derfor måtte beskyttes.

Mange mennesker så hændelsen, alligevel er der ingen beskrivelse af den anholdte gerningsmand. Han skal have skyldt på “sociale tjenester”, hvad så end det måtte betyde.

Last night it was reported that when asked why he had thrown the boy over the railing, the suspect had responded that it was the fault of social services.

The witness added that a bystander then punched the suspect in the face before he was led to a toilet for his own protection.

Scotland Yard says there is nothing to suggest that the suspect knew the victim, who was flown to hospital by air ambulance.

An Italian, who gave her name as Adelaide, tweeted: ‘A girl was with her son in her arms on the terrace of Tate Modern, a stranger approached and threw the child down.’

Tidligere har terror været et Damoklessværd, nu også mennesker som skubber andre ud foran et tog og river børn ud af deres mødres arme. Der mærkes en uvilje mod at snakke om det. Men vær sikker: Dette er historier som alle forstår.

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Tate Modern var Storbritanniens mest populære turistattraktion i 2018 med 5,9 millioner besøgende, skriver BBC. Der er en storslået udsigt fra toppen bygningen, og mange tager turen op til 11. etage for at skue ud over London. Den 6-årige blev kastet ud fra en sådan udsigtsplatform.

47 år gamle Nancy Barnfield befandt sig på Tate sammen med en ven, da hun hørte et højt smæld, ifølge det britiske nyhedsbureau (PA). Derefter så hun en kvinde som råbte «Hvor er min dreng? Hvor er min dreng?».

Flere andre var også vidne til hændelsen og fortæller om en panik- og chokpræget stemning. (NTB)

‘Oh my God, the boy dropped’: Terrified mother reveals how she fled with her daughter when teen, 17, ‘threw boy, six, from 200ft-high Tate Modern viewing platform’ – as victim remains ‘critical’

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