Das britische Nachrichtenportal Wales Online berichtet am 13.12.2009 über telefonische Todesdrohungen gegenüber dem Filmemacher Mark Watson. Sie sollen vom walisischen BNP-Funktionär Roger Phillips stammen und sind nun Gegenstand polizeilicher Ermittlungen, nachdem Watson einen zwölfminütigen Drohanruf mitgeschnitten hatte. Phillips wollte mit seinem Anruf erreichen, dass Watson einen Film über den Neonazi von der Videoplattform YouTube entfernt. In dem Beitrag auf Wales Online heißt es unter anderem:
Mr Watson, 46, an independent filmmaker living in Bristol, said he started getting phone calls from businessman Mr Phillips, 42, after he made an anti-racist video and posted it online. He said: “He started contacting me to tell me to stop making videos and telling me he would come and get me.”
“When I found some more pictures of him and made them into another video, he phoned me and started shouting and swearing at me to take it down.” One of the pictures in Mr Watson’s video included the BNP member’s 18-year-old son, and it was this that allegedly led Mr Phillips to make the death threats. “He told me I had to take the picture of his son down,” said Mr Watson, who has subsequently removed the video from his YouTube page.
The threats, heard by Wales on Sunday, cannot be repeated for legal reasons because they could be used as evidence in court. But in one 40-second clip the caller, believed to be Mr Phillips, swore 14 times and threatened to kill Mr Watson twice. […]
Mr Watson has kept a video diary of his life since the phone call, which was made on Tuesday December 1, and has posted it on YouTube, receiving thousands of hits in days. He is hoping to make a feature-length documentary about his experience after the police investigation and any subsequent court case is complete.
He added: “So many of my friends have been threatened by the BNP and they have backed down because they are scared, and I don’t blame them.”
“But I wanted to stand up to them and show people exactly what they are.” [weiter lesen]