Race hate thugs kill Polish man

Six race  hate thugs beat a man to death after hearing him speak a foreign language. The young men from Harlow, Essex all thought to be in their teens set upon Arkadiusz Jozwik like a pack of wolves, kicking and punching him and his friend outside a pizza parlor on Saturday night.

Arkadiusz brother, Radek revealed these attacks on polish people in Harlow are not new:

It’s happening a lot now. Nobody calls the police, they just walk home and forget about it.”

It will be difficult to see the unprovoked attack outside the prism of the xenophobic rise since the EU referendum debate and the vote.

Police and monitoring groups have recorded hundreds of attacks and racially abusive insults in the last few months. Operation Black Vote and others warned that a tragedy of this kind might occur given the hate filled rhetoric around the immigration debate that was central to much of the Brexit narrative.

For some people in some parts of the country we now have a climate in which they feel that racial hatred has become legitimized. For example, a caller on a recent radio phone in explained, ‘for so long we couldn’t say what we wanted about immigrants, but now we can’.

The Government has set up a Hate Crime team to tackle the recent spike in this crime. Sadly, it was too late to save a man who came here to better his life for himself and his family.

Simon Woolley