I too had visit from police over tweet, says writer
Julie Bindel reveals that officers visited her home over an alleged hate crime
after a complaint ‘from a transgender man in the Netherlands’
One of Britain’s most prominent feminist writers has revealed that police
visited her home to warn they were investigating one of her tweets as a “hate
crime”.
Julie Bindel said she received a knock on the door on a Sunday afternoon
from two Scotland Yard officers, who told her
a “transgender man” from the
Netherlands had reported one of her social media posts.
Bindel, a longstanding campaigner on violence against women and critic of
gender ideology, said she was not allowed to know which tweet had prompted
the investigation, under what category of hate crime it was being
investigated, nor the identity of the complainant. The officers asked her to
voluntarily attend her local police station to make a statement, she said, but
she refused.
She described the visit as as “Orwellian” and said detectives “could better use
their time investigating rape and domestic violence”.
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