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Antisemitic threats to children on Sydney bus spark police investigation Five teenagers accused of antisemitic threats to children on Sydney bus
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Police are investigating reports that a group of Jewish schoolchildren heading home on a bus were victims of a vicious antisemitic attack by a group of teenagers in Sydney. Five teenagers have been arrested over an alleged antisemitic attack on a group of Jewish schoolchildren on a bus in Sydney.
The children, aged between five and 12, were distraught after the group boarded the bus headed to Bondi Junction on Wednesday afternoon and began screaming antisemitic abuse, a mother of three of them said. Police say the teenagers were arrested in Dover Heights about 3.30am on Thursday.
Jacqui Blackburn told the Daily Telegraph her three daughters had called her saying: “Please help us mummy, there’s eight drunk men that have just been let on to our school bus. 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 New South Wales communities minister, Victor Dominello, said he was deeply disturbed by the reports. “Public abuse and intimidation on the grounds of race or religion is deplorable,” he said. The NSW communities minister, Victor Dominello, said he was deeply disturbed by the reports.
“The people of NSW will never excuse it and those who are alleged to have subjected schoolchildren as young as five to this antisemitic attack should face the full force of the law.” “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.
Police have appealed for public assistance to find the teenagers, who are described as being aged between 15 and 17.