On Christmas Day,hooded and masked invaders stormed Windsor Castle with mighty crossbowsboasted of plans to "assassinate" Queen Elizabeth II I was shooting a video to do. The court heard Wednesday.
20-year-old Jaswant Singh Chail recorded a video just before entering the castle grounds - while the 96-year-old monarch was inside celebrating a holiday, prosecutors told London's Westminster magistrate
"I'm sorry for what I've done and will do. I'm going to try to assassinate Elizabeth, the Queen of the Royal Family," he said in a video, where he used a crossbow.
"This is revenge for those who died in1919. Massacre," said Mr Chail, as British forces killed nearly 400 Sikhs in the holy city of Amritsar in northwest India.
"It is also revenge for those killed, humiliated and discriminated against because of their race," he said in the video. 24}
Chail managed to reach a location that gave him access to the private property of the castle, where the Queen was celebrating with her eldest son, Prince Charles, before being discovered at 8:10 am. The court heard, by the royal protector.
"I'm here to kill the Queen," he told police, who immediately pulled out a taser and ordered the intruder to kneel, prosecutors said. .
Cop like he Chail something I explained that I could see Prosecutors said he wore a vigilante movie and Halloween costume, and that the "Supersonic X-bow" he was carrying could cause fatal injuries. A search of Chail's home in Southampton also found a gas mask and rope, the court said.
His electronics also showed that he had applied to the British Ministry of Defense and the Grenadier Guard to contact the royal family, the court heard.
Chail was charged under the Treason Act with intent to "harm or warn the person of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Her II". He has also been charged with making death threats and possessing an offensive weapon.
He was not asked to submit a petition at Wednesday's hearing.
He was ordered to be detained until his next court appearance on September 14.
Prosecutions under the Treason Act of 1842 are rare. In 1981, Marcus Sergeant was charged with the act after firing blanks at the Queen on her horse at London's Trooping the Color Parade, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison. was sentenced to
More serious and older treason — From 1351 — not used since World War II when William Joyce (propaganda nicknamed William Joyce, Lord Ho Ho) cooperated with the Nazis. He was hanged in his 1946.
Indians have long demanded a formal apology from Britain for what is known as the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Queen Elizabeth II laid a wreath at the site of her massacre during a visit to India in 1997, calling it a "tragic example" of her past "difficult episodes." called.
with post wire
