Elon Musk has extended his online attacks on EU countries to Ireland, claiming “illegal immigrants” were getting shorter sentences than Irish nationals, adding this was “messed up”.
The close ally of incoming US president Donald Trump, and owner of X, retweeted a post put up by a well-known Irish far-right agitator, who claimed that for over 20 years: “Muslim illegal immigrants have been handed lesser sentences for raping women in Ireland.”
Mr Musk quoted the tweet and said: “Irish citizens get longer sentences than illegal immigrants. That’s messed up”, a post which has so far attracted over 6.4m views, 58,000 likes, 13,000 reposts and 2,500 replies.
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