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Five teenagers accused of antisemitic threats to children on Sydney bus | |
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Five teenagers have been arrested over an alleged antisemitic attack on a group of Jewish schoolchildren on a bus in Sydney. | |
Police say the teenagers were arrested in Dover Heights about 3.30am on Thursday. | |
They have been released into the custody of their parents as investigations continue. | |
On Wednesday afternoon, a group of eight teenagers boarded a bus full of children, aged between five and 12, in Randwick which was headed to Bondi Junction, police say. | |
The mother of three of the children says the group started screaming antisemitic abuse. | |
Jacqui Blackburn has told the Daily Telegraph her three terrified daughters called her saying: “Please help us mummy, there’s eight drunk men that have just been let on to our school bus. | |
“They’re screaming, ‘Heil Hitler, kill the Jews ... we’re going to cut your throats’ ... then the phone cut off.” | “They’re screaming, ‘Heil Hitler, kill the Jews ... we’re going to cut your throats’ ... then the phone cut off.” |
The NSW communities minister, Victor Dominello, said he was deeply disturbed by the reports. | |
“We’ve been so lucky in this country that we have not had so much blood shed that we’ve seen overseas and in order to avoid that happening we must continue to condemn any racial attacks that we see in this country,” he said. | |