Poles in Britain voice fears after brutal killing
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
31.08.2016 15:47
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Poles in Britain voice fears after brutal killing
A murder investigation was launched on Monday in south-east England following the death of Arkadiusz Jóźwik, a Polish a factory worker living in Britain for the last four years.
Photo: wikimedia commons/Ian Roberts
He was knocked unconscious on Saturday in the town of Harlow and died of his injuries on Monday.
Local police said the attack on Jóźwik and a second Polish man who survived the assault was apparently unprovoked and that one line of inquiry was into whether the attack was a hate crime.
Some residents have said the assault was not the first instance of physical violence against Polish people in Harlow following the Brexit vote.
“We feel unwanted. It really escalated following the Brexit vote, there is more aggression, tension, racism... abuse at work,” one Pole living in Harlow told Polish Radio.