London – An 11-year-old boy was surrounded in the Hackney
neighborhood of the British capital by a group of unfamiliar older children,
who threatened to beat him up if he did not take off his kippah (skullcap).
The boy was not injured in the incident, but the report said he was
“badly shaken.”
“He lives near where the incident
took place and had his rucksack over his shoulders as he was walking home from
school,” a spokesman for north London’s Shomrim neighborhood watch group was
quoted as saying. “The child said he tried to run away but the youths blocked
his way.”
