07-08-2014 08:27 AM - edited 07-08-2014 08:28 AM
Bondi racist bus attack: Jewish schools on alert after eight males threaten to cut schoolchildren’s throats, five teenagers arrested
They were screaming ‘Heil Hitler’, ‘Kill the Jews’,
‘Palestine must kill you Jews’, ‘
We are going to cut your throats and slice your throats open’
POLICE have arrested five alleged offenders involved in a terrifying racial attack on a school bus in Sydney yesterday.
Jewish children as young as five were subjected to a terrifying racial attack when thugs stormed their school bus and threatened to slit their throats.
Screaming “Kill the Jews” and “Heil Hitler” the louts jumped on the bus packed with about 30 students, from kindergarten to year 12, who were on their way home from school yesterday.
Due to their level of intoxication they could not be formally interviewed by police. Their parents were contacted and Waverley detectives plan to formally interview the group later today.
The males are aged between 15 and 17-years-old, but threeoffenders are yet to be located.
Eastern Beaches Inspector Chris Stiles said officers reviewed CCTV from the school bus which led to the arrest on a Dover Heights street.
Police said at 3.50am today, six young males were found in Dover Heights. They are believed to be those who were on the bus.
The threatened students, from Mount Sinai College, Moriah College and Emanuel School, were hysterical after the attack by eight young men as the school bus travelled through the eastern suburbs towards Bondi Junction.
The attackers, described as Australian and smelling of alcohol, boarded on Alison Rd, Randwick at 4pm.
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on 08-08-2014 01:20 PM
Hello, everyone. This discussion is getting a little heated. Could we please communicate with a more civil tone. Thanks!
on 07-08-2014 08:38 AM
on 07-08-2014 09:18 AM
FIVE teenagers have been arrested over an alleged anti-Semitic attack on a group of Jewish schoolchildren on a bus in Sydney.
Police say the teenagers were arrested in east suburban Dover Heights at about 3.30am today.
on 07-08-2014 09:19 AM
That is terrible, and I am glad they got the bleeps. But as I said elsewhere, not totally unexpected. When the Jewish community officially supports Israel regardless what sort of crimes it is committing, there will be people who will use it to legitimise their extreme right white supremacist Jew hating ideas. And the silent majority of Jewish people, who are as horrified about what has just happened in Gaza as anybody, are the ones who will suffer.
on 07-08-2014 10:04 AM
Under age drunks to begin with?
DEB
on 07-08-2014 10:24 AM
@lloydslights wrote:Under age drunks to begin with?
DEB
Yes and odd that they're also from Dover Heights, known Jewish enclave. If it weren't so serious you'd think it was a schoolboys idea of a prank.
on 07-08-2014 01:12 PM
on 07-08-2014 01:22 PM
@daydream**believer wrote:hy did the bus driver let these drunk idiots on the bus to begin with?
Thats what is being asked... Think this bus driver has a lot to answer for as well
on 07-08-2014 01:49 PM
@daydream**believer wrote:hy did the bus driver let these drunk idiots on the bus to begin with?
perhaps they were regulars on his bus who usually wear highly regarded private school uniforms, or perhaps he didn't notice they were drunk when they got on.
on 07-08-2014 01:51 PM
one of the papers - SMH I think, says that they were in school uniform (or partial school uniforms) and had school bus passes.
ie driver thought they were school kids
he certainly should not have let them on if they were drunk