JUST after midnight on 3 July last year, seven men burst into the shop of Nazir Ahmed in Longsight, Manchester.
Nazir thought that they were fascists. His fears seemed to be confirmed when one intruder pulled out the telephone wires, preventing son contacting the police.
The Ahmeds tried to defend themselves. and snouted lor help. When it arrived intruders identified themselves they were plain clothes police officers.
Nazir Ahmed has now been charged policeman with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and his son races two assaul charges.
They could face years in jail simply for themselves against what they believed to be a fascist attack.
Black people in have good reason to be wary of racist assaults. Last year, tor example, the house of an Asian bus-driver was leaving his daughter in a coma the for weeks.
Another Asian family were hounded out of their shop in Levenshulme smashed up by a gang of racist wounding youths.
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