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Melbourne police said they were investigating online threat reports against one of the two victims of the shopping center
Australian police charged a 31 -year -old woman for assaulting two Muslim women in a shopping center in Melbourne last week.
The woman of the suburbs of Pascoe Vale is due to the court on Wednesday, where it will be alleged that she targeted the two victims on February 13 due to their heads at the head, report of local media.
She would have grabbed and smothered a 30 -year -old pregnant woman using the latter’s hijab at the Epping shopping center before pushing and slapping another 26 -year -old woman in a separate assault 10 minutes later.
This occurs two weeks after the country has adopted new difficult laws against hate crimes following a recent series of high -level anti -Semitic attacks.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the incident on Wednesday as “reprehensible”. He rejected criticism that his government took Islamophobic attacks less seriously compared to anti -Semitic attacks.
“I take all the attacks on people on the basis of their faith seriously, and they should all face all the strength of the law,” he told journalists.
Melbourne police said they are investigating online threat reports against one of the two victims of the shopping center. The two have suffered injuries that are not living in life.
On Tuesday, the anti-Islamophobia envoy of Australia, Aftab Malik, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that “all forms of hatred must stop” and that the country’s leaders were to condemn the incident to Melbourne.
Earlier in the week, the president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Rateb Jneid, expressed his alarm in the face of attacks against Muslims in the country and described the government’s response as “roughly insufficient”.
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The woman in the suburbs of Pascoe Vale is due in court on Wednesday
