Police investigate pro-Brexit hate crimes

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Robert Booth
Fri 27 Sep 2019 13.09 EDT

Police in Lewes in East Sussex are investigating a spate of suspected hate crimes committed overnight on Thursday, including the bricking of an anti-Brexit campaigner’s window, antisemitic graffiti on a garden fence and Nazi symbols daubed on a house.

Eugene Gill woke up to find a half brick had been thrown through his kitchen window where he was displaying a “Stop Brexit” poster, residents in The Avenue found “Fuck the Jews Soros’s Whores Traitor’s [sic]” sprayed in 2ft-high red letters along a fence, and a wall on Paddock Close was sprayed with the slogan: “Save Old Sussex Kill a DFL SOS” with the S’s written in the style of the Nazi SS logo. DFL is a derogatory term for someone who has moved down from London to the South Downs market town.

Gill said the attacker struck his kitchen window at 1.20am but he could not see who it was when he went into the dark street.

“The brick was on the worktop and scrawled on it was the word ‘traitor’ on one side and on the other ‘stop this brick’,” he said ...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/27/police-investigate-pro-brexit-hate-crimes-in-lewes

Are there very fine people on both sides?

[defacto7]

1. I rented a cottage in Lewes East Sussex for 3 years.

It's hard for me to picture this incident. I have great memories from there. There was occasional foolishness from young punks but not this stuff.