{"id":28535,"date":"2019-01-10T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28535"},"modified":"2019-01-10T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:22:10","slug":"australias-african-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28535","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s African Gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Overrun by African criminal gangs, its streets filled with violence, terror and menace – that’s how some local media and politicians are depicting the Australian city of Melbourne.<\/p>\n

For more than two years, there have been reports that Melbourne is in the grip of a crime<\/a> wave, with the finger of blame pointed directly at African street gangs.<\/p>\n

“We need to call it for what it is. Of course, this is African gang violence … people are scared to go out to restaurants of a night-time because they’re followed home by these gangs,” said Peter Dutton, Federal Home Affairs Minister.<\/p>\n

Images of brawling Sudanese teens and hooded armed robbers have spread terror and stoked a growing anger towards those “of African appearance”.<\/p>\n

“They do all these criminal acts and you see on the news that they get away with it. Why do they get away with it?” says one resident.<\/p>\n

It’s generating heated debate and social tensions – police are being accused of political correctness and inaction while the Sudanese community feels under siege.<\/p>\n

“You get stared at. Imagine someone’s looking through you or looking … someone’s eyes are just burning into the side of your head. That’s what it feels like,” says a young Sudanese man.<\/p>\n

But how accurate is the so-called “threat”?<\/p>\n

101 East<\/em> investigates the claims and counterclaims to unearth the truth behind the headlines of Australia<\/a>‘s African crime wave.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overrun by African criminal gangs, its streets filled with violence, terror and menace – that’s how some local media and politicians are depicting the Australian city of Melbourne. For more than two years, there have been reports that Melbourne is in the grip of a crime wave, with the finger of blame pointed directly at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}