Locked-down Melbournians can still enjoy the city’s famed, vibrant multiculturalism, right in their own homes.
A gang armed with knives and baseball bats has terrorised seven residents during a frightening home invasion in Melbourne’s inner west.
In a world turned upside-down by COVID-19, Melbournians will surely be grateful for any sign of normalcy. Footy on the telly, trying to find the best heirloom, single-origin coffee…and African gangs.
The pandemic might have put a stop to fishermen angling off Port Phillip Bay’s piers, but nothing stops some of Melbourne’s young arrivals from the Dark Continent from indulging in their favourite leisure pursuit.
No, not basketball – home invasions.
Three occupants were left with cuts and bruises and were taken to hospital for treatment after they were attacked by the four thugs during the break-in.
Interestingly, the home invasion took place just two blocks from Flemington’s locked-down high-rise towers – and within a Macca’s run of the local cop-shop.
The quartet, believed to be men aged in their late teens to early 20s, broke into the Flemington property about 8pm on July 20.
They threatened the seven residents and assaulted three of them, before ransacking the Princes St house and attempting to steal laptops, mobile phones and a large sum of cash.
First Constable Lucy Kerr said the offenders fled by jumping the back fence where they dropped all the items they had taken from the house except the cash[…]
First-Const Kerr said police believed it was an isolated incident and wasn’t [a] targeted attack.
Amazingly, police and media actually managed to bring themselves to say the unspeakable and accurately describe the alleged offenders.
She said the offenders were picked up by a dark coloured 4WD or SUV in Bignell St. The quartet have been described as of African appearance.
No doubt colonialism is to blame.
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