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UK: Brexit: Wave of hate crime and racial abuse reported after EU referendum

26 June 2016

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"More than a hundred incidents of racial abuse and hate crime have been reported since the UK voted to leave the European Union.

Many of the alleged perpetrators cited the decision to leave the EU explicitly.

One video, purportedly filmed in Hackney on the morning after the referendum, shows a man arguing with someone in a car before yelling: “Go back to your country.”

A Facebook album entitled "Worrying Signs" has been created to document alleged incidents in which people have been targeted with xenophobic comments."

See the article: Brexit: Wave of hate crime and racial abuse reported after EU referendum (The Independent, link)

See also: Racist Incidents Have U.K. Worried What Referendum Wrought (Bloomberg, link) and Hate Incidents After European Referendum Results: A Compilation (The Muslim Council of Britain, link)

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