Shocking video which emerged on Tuesday morning shows three
apparently drunk youths shouting hurling racial abuse and shouting at a
man to “Get back to Africa’ on a tram in Manchester.
to Manchester Evening News, the man, who spoke with a foreign accent
had asked the young men to stop using bad language as they were
frightening other passengers.
responded by hurling abuses at the man, telling his to “get back to
Africa,” Get off the tram now. Bro, I ‘ll waste you. I ‘ll waste anyone
and Dont chat sh*t when you are not even from England, you little
f***king immigrant”
youths at one point flick the
drink at the man, splashing him and several passengers. They were later
chased off the tram, with passengers yelling at them, “You’re a disgrace
to England”.
A
woman who was on the tram, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “When I
was there I knew it was going to get serious. This kind of incident is
really happening. It needs to be noticed we don’t want these kind of
incidents happening. The three men got off the tram at Market Street and
it stopped there.The women on the tram started crying. It was really
horrible. When I
was walking back to my work I was crying all the way. I couldn’t control
myself. I was feeling sad, I now feel scared coming to work. They were
three boys, they weren’t very old. I am scared of travelling on my own, I
feel scared for my children that it is not safe, I will not take them
on the tram.”
Parkin of Greater Manchester Police City said: “This is a disgusting
display of abuse which quite frankly has no place
in society. All hate incidents are treated with the utmost severity and
this behaviour will not be tolerated in Greater Manchester.”
