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10 May 2017/14 IYAR 5777
KNIFEMAN WITH MEAT CLEAVER THREATENS TO KILL YOUNG JEWS
BY JAMES MARLOW
Shomrim Stamford Hill, the Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol, received dozens of emergency calls on Tuesday evening after a man produced a meat cleaver on Upper Clapton Road in North London. Shomrim immediately dispatched units to the scene who were minutes away whilst
police were also called. Witnesses say they saw a male attempt to enter a kosher food store in an extremely aggressive fashion, shouting anti-Semitic abuse and obscenities. Staff saw what was taking place outside the shop, and before he could enter they locked the door. But the man ran towards another kosher shop, this time gaining entry whilst
brandishing a meat cleaver in one hand and what appeared to be a large knife in his other hand. He shouted, “Where is the boss, I will kill him.” Staff at the second kosher store replied several times that the owner was not there and the man eventually ran out of the shop and onto the street, still armed with the weapons. The male described as white then allegedly ran towards two young Jewish girls aged 14 and 8, shouting “You Jews run away from here before I kill you,” according to Shomrim. When Shomrim arrived at the scene, they were told the armed man had run towards a block of flats close by. Shomrim volunteers followed him into the area and cordoned off the zone, stopping all members of the public from approaching. Another Shomrim team who arrived on the scene retrieved the CCTV from one of the shops to get an idea of what they were dealing with. Soon after the police arrived, an armed unit appeared on the scene and were immediately sent in to where the suspect was last
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With less than four weeks before perhaps the most important general election in twenty years, party helpers were out in their droves along with their party candidates knocking on doors and hoping to turn out the vote on 8 June. In Finchley and Golders Green, Conservative candidate Mike Freer said he felt good about the response he received on the doorsteps. The heart of the Orthodox community in Golders Green, which is generally a 90% Conservative area, was targeted last Sunday. Elsewhere the Labour candidate Jeremy Newmark was out with Matthew Offord CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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