Tiesittekö muuten, että happoiskut keksittiin alunperin 1800-luvun Britanniassa?

Karmea tuo Britanniassa tehty happoisku, jonka tekijäksi epäilleen "skinny white male" ja kolme muuta on etsintäkuulutettu kuultavaksi.

Itse asiassahan hapolla pahoinpitely on alunperin brittitapa, suorastaan vimma 1800-luvulla. Sieltä se levisi brittihallinnon myötä Intiaan ja muualle Aasiaan.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/11/acid-attacks-vict…

"A Glasgow newspaper, the Reformers’ Gazette, noted in February 1834 that a Hugh Kennedy had been hung for throwing vitriol “wilfully and maliciously” on the face of a fellow servant while he slept. Kennedy’s victim had woken in agony, “one of his eyes being literally burned out!” The Gazette grieved to say that the crime of throwing vitriol had become so common in the Glasgow area that it was “almost a stain on the national character”. No punishment could be too severe for the culprits. “We would have their arms cut off by the shoulders, and, in that state, send them to roam as outcasts from society, without the power of throwing vitriol again.”

As the 19th century wore on, the crime developed a name: vitriolage. Despoliation prompted by jealousy and rejection was often the motive. Women threw it at other women, men at men, men at women, and women at men. It was common enough, as late as 1938, for Graham Greene to have his sinister protagonist Pinkie carry a small bottle of acid in Brighton Rock. (“He took the cork out and spilled a little on the wooden plank of the pier; it hissed like steam.”) Only later in the last century did the crime begin to be associated with the developing rather than the developed world, as a function of male oppression and feudalism, rather than the green-eyed cruelty of richer societies."

Iskuja tehdään nykyään paljon Italiassa ja Britanniassa, jälkimmäisessä SATOJA JOKA VUOSI, esim. Lontoon metropolialueella vuonna 2016 neljä ja puoli sataa!

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9589728