Elon Musk Is LYING About UK Grooming Gangs, Says Ex-UK Prosecutor

If you follow Elon Musk on Twitter, you might have a very distorted picture of one of the UK’s most controversial issues right now: child grooming gangs. “He [Musk] is completely rewriting history,” says Nazir Afzal, the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England, who prosecuted some of the most high profile cases in the country, including ones against British child sexual abusers of Pakistani heritage. In his first on-camera interview since Musk started attacking several British officials with accusations of failing to prosecute gangs responsible for crimes against children, Afzal joins Mehdi Hasan for a Town Hall Q&A to discuss the history of this decades-old issue in the UK. Mehdi and Afzal also took dozens of questions from Zeteo’s paid subscribers. CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 1:31 - Are Musk’s allegations warranted? 4:10 - How Musk rewrites history 6:22 - What does a ‘national inquiry’ entail? AUDIENCE QUESTIONS 8:09 - Could a national inquiry help catch more culprits? 9:34 - Why is the focus on Brown men rather than White men? 16:16 - Where are Musk’s statistics coming from? 17:19 - How do we debunk these incorrect stats? 18:33 - Why are Muslim leaders not condemning these crimes? 21:08 - What is motivating Musk? 22:22 - Why doesn’t Musk care about Matt Gaetz? 23:09 - Could a new national inquiry help the old national inquiry? 24:02 - How do we push back on disinformation? 25:24 - Is Musk trying to incite conflict in the UK? 29:27 - Did Keir Starmer block an investigation into Jimmy Savile? 30:40 - How do I convince friends that Musk is dangerous? 31:50 - Is this the new ‘war on terror’? 33:02 - How do we cover Musk without amplifying him? Subscribe to Zeteo to support independent and unfiltered journalism: https://zeteo.com/subscribe Find Zeteo: Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeteo_news Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zeteonews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@zeteonews Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/zeteo.com Find Mehdi: Substack: https://substack.com/@mehdirhasan Twitter: https://twitter.com/@mehdirhasan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/@mehdirhasan Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mehdirhasan