By Niall McCrae - September 3, 2025

She’s all over American ‘alt-right’ media: the 12-year-old girl in Dundee who brandished a dagger in one hand and an axe in the other, apparently to stop a migrant from harassing her younger sister. Outrage on social media escalated when police arrested the girl instead of the alleged predator. Elon Musk contributed to the viral heroine on X.

But did this really happen as presented, or is this another ‘psy-op’; to manipulate public opinion in pursuit of problem-reaction-solution?

It may be proven that a 12-year-old girl was pestered, and that her older sister, Mayah Sommers, intervened in an unlawful manner. Yet there are signs of stage management in this case, which arose in the context of heightened concerns about large numbers of male migrants housed in hotels across the UK. Scotland is getting its share of the influx, and noisy protests have erupted in Aberdeen and Falkirk.

The video was produced by the person confronted by the 12-year-old. He is not a recent migrant from one of the hundreds of dinghies crossing the English Channel. Fatos Ali Dumana, aged 21, told the Daily Mail that he came to Britain legally from Bulgaria four years ago, and that he is married and has a young baby. He was merely going to a local shop, he claimed, and never touched or approached the 12-year-old girl. The police are not investigating him for any offence.

If true, this would suggest that the girl described as ‘Queen of Scots’ by uncritical right-wing pundits was acting on malicious stereotyping of migrants rather than an actual threat. A child caught up in an atmosphere of fear and anger, in a council estate inhabited by white working-class folk uneasy about their new Muslim neighbours (Lochee is a rough area of a city that has seen better days). The incident is then exploited by the authorities to convey a message against ‘far-right’ agitation.

But as we saw with Covid-19, the powers-that-be do not simply wait for . . .

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