Edinburgh veteran attacked by pro-Hamas protestor while selling poppies
Jim Henderson, a 78-year outdated military veteran promoting poppies, was “punched,” “kicked,” and chased out of an Edinburgh prepare station by pro-Hamas protestors over the weekend.
“I’ve by no means recognized something prefer it,” Henderson stated afterwards.
The assault comes as for 70,000 anti-Israel protestors to descend on London this Remembrance Day weekend. On October 7 Hamas terrorists attacked Israel and there was a conflict raging within the Center East ever since. The violence has , together with numerous.
Henderson, who served within the Royal Corps of Indicators, 32 Sign Regiment in Northern Eire, was fundraising at his poppy stand whereas protestors staged a sit-in at Waverley station holding indicators that learn “Freedom for Palestine.”
They have been “chanting” and “saying it’s all in regards to the British Authorities, British individuals, Jews,” in an article printed Monday. “I used to be getting shoved backwards, at risk of falling, and one in every of them stood on my foot and break up my toe.”
“So I believed I had received to get the cash out of right here. So I went down, and as I bent down somebody punched me within the again. After which I received one other punch in my facet.”
“You don’t do this and kick somebody from behind and that was once I couldn’t get out of the best way. That’s once I bent down and…bang.”
British Transport Police (BTP) assistant chief Constable Sean O’Callaghan confirmed detectives “are investigating [the] reported assault and are “working with ScotRail relating to the investigation.”
