En buss full med judar som firade Chanukka överföllls av en islamistisk arabisk mobb mitt i centrala London. Överfallet skedde på shoppinggatan Oxford Street. Londonpolisen betecknar överfallet som ett hatbrott, men ingen av de islamistiska gärningsmännen är ännu gripen trots att attacken filmades...
London (CNN)London Metropolitan Police are investigating a video that appeared to show a group of men spitting at group of Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah earlier this week.
The
video, filmed from inside a bus dubbed a "Hanukkah party on wheels" in
central London on Monday, shows passengers subjected to a barrage of
alleged anti-Semitic abuse.
The
Met Police are treating the incident as a hate crime, according to a
Thursday statement. No injuries were reported and no arrests were made,
the force said.
"The
occupants of the bus were Jewish and the abuse directed at them was
allegedly antisemitic in nature," the Met statement said, adding that
police were called at the time of the incident and officers were
deployed. However, while police were en route, the bus "left the
location to avoid any further confrontation."
In
the video, the passengers can be heard saying "we are Jewish" and "we
need to go." The video shows one of the men in the group hitting the bus
with his shoe as it drove away.
Rabbi Shneor Glitsenstein, who was on board the bus, described the incident as a "bigoted antisemitic attack."
"Let
me be clear: On Monday evening we were attacked on the streets of
London for being Jewish and celebrating Chanukah. While our bus
contained no references to Israel, we were clearly a Jewish group. The
young men who surrounded us were not engaged in political protest; this
was a bigoted anti-Semitic attack in the heart of London, seen by dozens
of others, who stood by silently," Glitsenstein said in a statement
published by the Chabad Israeli Center Golders Green.
The
rabbi said that around 40 young people had gathered to mark the second
night of Hanukkah aboard an "open-air party bus." He said the night
turned sour after a group of men approached them as they were dancing in
Oxford Street, in central London.
"They
(the men) quickly became aggressive and began making profane gestures
and yelling 'Free Palestine!'" Glitsenstein said, adding that as soon as
his group returned to the bus, the "young men began shouting
profanities at the group, throwing at least one projectile on the top of
the bus, spitting at the bus, and banging on the windows with their
shoes."
After the bus drove off, the "Hanukkah party on wheels" continued, Glitsenstein added.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the footage as "disturbing."
"Racism
of any kind will never be tolerated in our society and we will continue
to do all we can to root it out," Johnson said in a tweet on Thursday.
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