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Crime and prejudice

Beware of jumping to conclusions about Brexit-induced violence

23 September 2017

9:00 AM

23 September 2017

9:00 AM

Nothing spoke of the fractious atmosphere in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum more than the death of 40-year-old Arek Jozwik in a shopping centre in Harlow, Essex in August 2016. What might, on any other weekend, have been passed over as just another grubby Saturday-night incident on Britain’s drunken high streets became elevated into a symptom of Brexit-induced racial hatred.

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