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Kurdish asylum seeker assaulted in street.

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The Kurdish Iranian boy, 17, was waiting with two friends at a bus stop in Shrublands Road when he was set upon by about eight people.MP Gavin Barwell said: "It's an appalling crime and I hope the people responsible... receive the full force of British justice."
Police said four men and two women were arrested on Saturday night.

~ chased him down the road before repeatedly kicking him as he lay on the ground.

His friends suffered minor injuries in the attack but the boy is reported to have sustained a fractured skull and a blood clot on his brain. Link.

I have read of a whole lot more such incidents in Germany but this is the first (and hopefully last) such attack. The Kurds are facing problems in Turkey as well as in being on the frontline in fighting ISIS.
Thankfully arrests have been made already so the locals will have pointed out the guilty very quickly.
 
I have read of a whole lot more such incidents in Germany but this is the first (and hopefully last) such attack. The Kurds are facing problems in Turkey as well as in being on the frontline in fighting ISIS.
Thankfully arrests have been made already so the locals will have pointed out the guilty very quickly.

Do you think this attack was anti Kurdish rather than anti immigrant. Most attacks seem the latter and it seemed odd that the fact that the victim was a Kurd was so prominent in the report.
 
The befuddlement at the victim's ethnicity/nationality being highlighted in the report clearly stems from the ignorance over how Kurds in general may be deemed as our currently most trustworthy allies in the fight against IS.
 
I have read of a whole lot more such incidents in Germany .....................~
Not to detract from the conduct of the "indigenous Yobs" that all countries can boast, Germany actually has something like a little civil war going on right now between various Turkish factions within.

No doubt exacerbated by the recent flurry of accusations coming out of Ankara, according to which it condones and even aids the PKK (which it doesn't) and supports anti-Erdogan demonstrators (which it doesn't, either).

The peak recently having been reached by uncovering covert actions of the Turkish MIT (intelligence agency) in Germany, spying on Gülen associates and sending black lists back to Ankara.
 
Not to detract from the conduct of the "indigenous Yobs" that all countries can boast, Germany actually has something like a little civil war going on right now between various Turkish factions within.

No doubt exacerbated by the recent flurry of accusations coming out of Ankara, according to which it condones and even aids the PKK (which it doesn't) and supports anti-Erdogan demonstrators (which it doesn't, either).

The peak recently having been reached by uncovering covert actions of the Turkish MIT (intelligence agency) in Germany, spying on Gülen associates and sending black lists back to Ankara.

This was something I wondered about too, with jog's question being relevant here. I don't think this is a Turkish related incident, it seems those who assaulted him were recognised and names handed over to police pretty quickly which is why there are now about 9 people being held for the crime.

Do you think this attack was anti Kurdish rather than anti immigrant. Most attacks seem the latter and it seemed odd that the fact that the victim was a Kurd was so prominent in the report.

No real background details at present: it now appears 20 people were involved watching the kurd getting chased down the street and then assaulted. They had all been in the local pub so it's tending to look more "anti-immigrant" than "anti-Kurd."
 
This was something I wondered about too, with jog's question being relevant here. I don't think this is a Turkish related incident, it seems those who assaulted him were recognised and names handed over to police pretty quickly which is why there are now about 9 people being held for the crime.....~
Oh, I was simply responding to the reference on Germany, the BBC article itself indeed doesn't show anything but this being a case of local yobs.

Same thing can happen to Kurds or others in Germany as well, indigenous hate mobs don't really distinguish much by ethnicity if alone "the looks" serve to confirm.
 
The befuddlement at the victim's ethnicity/nationality being highlighted in the report clearly stems from the ignorance over how Kurds in general may be deemed as our currently most trustworthy allies in the fight against IS.

No Muslims are trustworthy, Breitbart said so... :tocktock2
 
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