By Eric King
Mozart Estate in Kilburn has long been blighted by gang feuds.
The latest senseless killing of Mohanna n put down to a cross fire between disputing ganAbdou has beegs. Once refereed to as crack estate, Mozart is seen as the heart of gang life in Kilburn. Intimidating looking teenagers bowling down the streets are mostly believed to be armed with knives.
Many are school drop outs, but even many of those attending college lead a life dictated by street tensions. Drug dealing is rife, and so is post code wars. Visitors from outside the area are often confronted and challenged about their purpose in the area. Most of the youths there recognize a local face, but there can be people who hail from the area not known to the other. Many of the lads there have moved from hard area Stonebridge or Harlesden, where stabbings, shootings and murders have become common place. The eye of media.com has since 2016 taken an interest in the Kilburn area, as well as other parts of the country characterized by deadly drama and street wars. We have established reliable contacts in the area, both with journalists, working professionals, and ofcourse, street thugs.
We practically have a good idea of what goes on there. The idea of an innocent people dying as a result of other people’s grievances is heartbreaking. ”it’s lethal down here, one of our sources told the eye of media.com. You can get shanked(stabbed) for looking at someone for too long, walking the wrong way, or even claiming to be from an area where people have beef . If someone approaches you and asks you ”what sides are you from”? The best answer is to say ”I don’t know what you mean by sides”, or I lived here when I was really young, but now live abroad”. If you say I am from Hackney, or Brixton, the person you are talking to may have beef with people from that area. Many people from here have beef with people from Hackney for example. They usually approach people who appear in their dressing or profile (profile means they way you operate, talk, or walk) with these questions. People get bullied for the wrong answers, and a guy who thinks he is hard may pull a face and use a certain tone to respond to an attitude they don’t like. That may mean getting stabbed or shot that same moment, later that day, or another day. People here don’t forget incidences”. ‘Then you have the case of people dealing drugs. If you are dealing in the same vicinity or even close to another dealer’s patch, you have already inviting trouble. Acquaintances get drawn into it easily and people die. It is not a joke around here. People inherit other people’s trouble easily, I have heard of people who have died just being friends with somebody caught up in a dispute. Al it takes it for their enemy to see you with them once, especially if a verbal dispute without any incidence takes place the first time. The next time they see you, all it takes is for four eyes to meet, and anything can happen. Literally anything. Word also gets round fast, and once people even suspect or hear a rumour of who was guilty, the suspects can get attacked or killed, then you have a vicious cycle of revenge. It is really bad”.
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GUNNED
The recent killing of 20 year old Mohanna Abdou has been the latest in a series of murders in the capital. Young and beautiful, she was gunned down in the evening after 8pm in a public street with witnesses. Her attackers on cycles were disguised , preventing identification from any observers. ” This killing is really sad, our young contact told us. I don’t know this girl at all, but granted, give it a few more days and there will be whispers of what it was about. The media has reported that it was a stray bullet of cross fire, and that she was at the wrong place at the wrong time. But trust me, this isn’t always the case. Girls often get involved in men’s beef, by what they say or the actions they take. I a’int saying that’s what happened here, but it has happened in many cases where the families of the female victim will describe her as just an innocent person. Usually, it is because the family don’t know the fulls story. Most people killed on the streets are the intended target, even when the reasons are unfair or wicked. There are a few unlucky ones, but most killers aim for their victim, it has been discussed in many circles here loads of times”.
MONEY
”There are girls who have accepted money from rival gangs to set somebody up, who gets robbed or shot. Then when the girl eventually gets done, they say she was an innocent person. Some girls get shot for cheating on their boyfriend with a rival. Other times, it is because of what she said or how she spoke about her ex boyfriend. It is really dark out here, and the media or parents are generally clueless about what really goes on. Even when cases go to court, the whole truth doesn’t always get told. Girls can be very threatening in their language , especially when they have a grievance with a guy. Some of the guys here are heartless and brutal, they do things that will make people say harsh things to them”. All accounts of Mohanna Abdou is that she was a loving and well liked person who was an innocent bystander in this awful killing. Police are investigating the murder in great detail.
Lack of solid education is a fundamental problem for many teenagers, who have very limited avenues in the legitimate world of correctness. Street credibility has long been made synonymous with real progress, toughness and material belongings perceived as the ultimate goal. Disadvantaged youths are numerous in the stretch of neigbourhoods from Kilburn to Stonebridge, that the youngsters relentlessly pursue money and wealth by hook or crook. Respect is also like an imperative right, these youngsters yearn to acquire as they emulate more established delinquent youths in their area.
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