After south London acid attack and new crack down on weapons, do Londoners feel safe in the capital?

We ask Londoners how they are feeling after two acid related incidents in London, and a government crack down on knife crime.

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00:00 On the 31st of January, a mother and her two daughters were the victims of an acid attack

00:06 in Clapham. The search is ongoing for suspect Abdel-Ezedi and the Met Police now believe

00:12 that Ezedi may have jumped into the River Thames later that night. On Sunday 11th February,

00:18 a man threatened a bus driver, claiming he was in possession of acid as well. So how

00:24 are Londoners feeling after these incidents and do they feel safe in the capital?

00:29 I think that is something that is concerning considering it did happen years ago, it was

00:33 a big thing years ago and for it to happen again, I feel like there's a lot of things

00:36 going on in the world right now. A lot of people aren't really in good places right

00:41 now so doing anything they can maybe for attention, never know but I'm a bit more cautious on

00:49 the roads if I'm being honest. I mainly stay at home or go to the gym, that's about it.

00:53 I don't really want to be outside anymore.

00:57 I personally have been lucky, I've never had any issues on the street in London, I've never

01:03 been a victim of crime but of course you do hear about it. Considering the size of London,

01:09 I think we're relatively crime free community, I think we do quite well but obviously there

01:15 are going to be people who are made ill by social pressures or whatever, their mental

01:23 health is not great and will carry out these kind of activities. It's difficult in any

01:29 big city to be crime free. I don't think it's a big problem, I wouldn't focus on it, I wouldn't

01:36 feel afraid to walk on the street at the moment anyway.

01:40 Well it's terrible that it's going on but I've never really particularly felt any danger

01:46 when I've been in London myself. I've always felt very safe wandering around but I know

01:52 there's a lot of knife crime in some areas and particularly for young men it's more of

01:57 a danger. So an acid is one of the most frightening things, throwing acid, but I think it's fairly

02:06 rare and given the numbers of people around it's not something I'm going to worry personally

02:12 about but it's just terrible for the victim and victims.

02:16 I think London is as safe as any other big city. I lived in Berlin and in Hamburg before

02:21 so you would see these things as well but London is a bit bigger and that's why you

02:26 see it a bit more often. I'm not really concerned about myself being attacked with acid but

02:32 when you come home in the night, yes okay, you walk a bit faster.