A 16-year-old Jewish girl was pelted with bottles and suffered injuries to her head and face in a ‘deliberate and violent’ attack in north London, as police say they have launched an investigation into a potential hate crime.
The teenager was with a group of schoolgirls walking to a rehearsal on Monday evening when several glass bottles were allegedly thrown by a man on a balcony at Woodberry Down Estate in Stamford Hill.
A video posted by Shomrim, a Jewish neighbourhood watch group which has described the incident as antisemitic and ‘abhorrent’, shows an array of glass shards on the ground alongside what appears to be broken plates.
In a statement on X, Shomrim posted a video of the scene, which is close to a girls’ school, and said the street had been ‘covered in shattered glass following an antisemitic attack on Orthodox Jewish schoolchildren.’
It added: ‘The sheer volume of glass scattered across the area resembles the aftermath of a riot. The force and distance of the thrown glass bottles reveal the deliberate and violent nature of this act.
‘These young children were targeted simply for their visibly Jewish identity.’
Following the incident, the youngster was rushed to Royal London Hospital by Hatzola Ambulance volunteers, where her injuries were assessed as ‘non-life changing’.
Shomrim said she had suffered ‘significant haematoma and facial grazes’.
