A letter in this week's Jewish Chronicle from Michael Freedland provides a telling and deeply alarming coda to the Muslim attack on the largely Jewish mourners commemorating those who died in the last V2 bomb attack of the war in London's East End:

'I was among those mourners at the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the V2 attack on Hughes Mansions (in which my wife's mother was among the 134 people killed). The police are quoted as saying that no-one came forward with evidence or identification. Untrue. When a police van finally arrived (half an hour after being called -- the officer in charge told me they couldn't have come earlier because they were searching for a stolen bicycle) I and others described exactly what had happened and pointed to the balcony from which the missiles were thrown. I added that I was sure I could identify some of the perpetrators. The policeman said: 'Yes, but we can't do anything. It's terrible, but it's a question of human rights'.

Posted by melanie at April 29, 2005