Victims sprayed with liquid in 'racist' attacks in Gloucester

**magwash** · 30-05-2012, 06:16 PM

Victims sprayed with liquid in 'racist' attacks in Gloucester

Gloucestershire Constabulary

A TERRIFIED schoolgirl was among the victims of a series of apparently racist attacks.

Amara Jaffer was hit in the face with an unknown liquid just metres from her Blenheim Road home on Monday.

The 13-year-old and at least four others were targeted by occupants of a red Transit van at about 5pm.

They were all sprayed in the face and on their clothes with an unknown substance.

Police say the attacks had a "very nasty racist element".

Amara's uncle Moses Jaffer said she was "traumatised" and had to stay home from school yesterday.

The Falconer Road resident said: "She was terrified to go to the police station and won't talk about it."

He added: "Everybody has the right to walk down the street without being attacked."

Police have arrested one man and are hunting two others after several men and women were sprayed with the substance in Barton Street, Clement Street and Blenheim Road.

Two of the victims reported being racially abused by the van's occupants. The liquid is believed to be "non-noxious".

Gloucester Chief Inspector Richard Burge said the victims were "understandably very distressed by their ordeal". He added: "There was a very nasty racist element to this but at the moment but we believe it is likely to have been a spontaneous incident in appalling taste rather than a planned campaign."

A 26-year-old man from Tipton, West Midlands was arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal damage and bailed to attend Gloucester police station on September 6.

Police are now looking for a ginger-haired man, who was not wearing a T-shirt and spoke with an accent, either Scottish or Irish.

Witnesses also described seeing a white man, of large build in the van, with a chubby face and in his 40s, and a white man in his mid-20s, who was tanned, with black hair and a large tribal tattoo on his left shoulder.

Police have urged anyone with information to call police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

**Marilyn** · 30-05-2012, 06:18 PM

Thank God she wasn't in Pakistan .. they spray acid in girls faces.

**flamingreen** · 30-05-2012, 06:55 PM

Clearly it was just some goon spraying people with water. I really am not sure I believe the two "victims" who reported being racially abused by the van's occupants. I think immigrants are very clued up to making spiteful allegations of racist abuse because they know then that the police will pull all the stops out to catch the perpetrators, however minor the attack.

**Innercity** · 31-05-2012, 07:17 PM

It was probably the jet on his wind screen washer being out of position,Any one else would not have given it a second thought,But the Moslem has to make a drama

**flamingreen** · 31-05-2012, 07:27 PM

One hot day last summer OH and I were driving out of London in heavy traffic, everyone had their windows open when, luckily for us, Mr Flames spotted two naughty young black teenagers standing on the pavement with Supersoakers squirting the passengers in the crawling stream of cars passing by, so he closed the window tout de suites! The two lads looked pretty annoyed when they noticed..

With hindsight I realise they were probably racists and selecting out only white people for the assault. Who knows what was in their supersoakers? Pee? Dye? Acid? I should have reported them to the police!

**SteveShark** · 31-05-2012, 07:45 PM

So...let me get this straight...

Someone reads a post about a liquid being sprayed on people and concludes that it must have been water...

That same person has a fluid sprayed at them and wonders whether it was urine, dye or acid...

Why so sure it was a totally harmless fluid in the one case, but sure it must have been something nasty in the other?

It reminds me of a couple of photos taken during the Katrina aftermath in New Orleans that featured on US news programs.

One was of a white couple seen struggling through the flood waters carrying bottles of water and who were described as 'survivors'.

The other was of a black couple doing exactly the same thing but they were described as 'looters'.

Nothing was said during the reports that supported the descriptions.

Perception is all; reality is meaningless?

**Citizen67** · 31-05-2012, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by SteveShark

So...let me get this straight...

Someone reads a post about a liquid being sprayed on people and concludes that it must have been water...

That same person has a fluid sprayed at them and wonders whether it was urine, dye or acid...

Why so sure it was a totally harmless fluid in the one case, but sure it must have been something nasty in the other?

It reminds me of a couple of photos taken during the Katrina aftermath in New Orleans that featured on US news programs.

One was of a white couple seen struggling through the flood waters carrying bottles of water and who were described as 'survivors'.

The other was of a black couple doing exactly the same thing but they were described as 'looters'.

Nothing was said during the reports that supported the descriptions.

Perception is all; reality is meaningless?

Don't play down attacks or the possibility of attacks on White people, we liv it.

**SteveShark** · 31-05-2012, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Citizen67

Don't play down attacks or the possibility of attacks on White people, we liv it.

I'm not.

I'm not playing down the possibility of any attacks on anyone.

Everyone is entitled to get on with their lives without any morons of any colour behaving like d1ckheads and screwing things up for them.

What I was doing was demonstrating how one's perspective affects one's perception of reality.