London 'Next-level kind of hate': Alleged hate-driven arson concerning for Muslims and police Share As London, Ont. police continue to search for a suspect, concern is growing over an arson Saturday. “To have somebody, set fire to somebody's house is really next-level kind of hate,” said Nawaz Tahir, spokesperson for the Muslim advocacy group HIKMA.
The front door of a home on Wateroak Drive in London, Ont. is boarded up after a man allegedly set fire to the front porch on the weekend. “What we know right now, we're treating this as a hate motivated, incident,” said Det.
Insp. Alex Krygsman of the London Police Service (LPS). It was around 10:40 p.
m. when first responders arrived on scene to douse the flames. No one was injured but the damage estimate is roughly $30,000.
CTV News has obtained surveillance video, which shows the suspect come to the home and steal signs supporting human rights in Palestine, as well as an Our London Family sign. He also left a note on the porch, which read, “One more time if I see you put that stupid (expletive) Free Palestine..
.I’m warning you.” A note left on the front porch of a home on Wateroak Drive in London, Ont.
(Source: Fatimasal82/X) “Further investigation, has led us to possibly linking several other previous incidents since the beginning of May to the same person,” said Krygsman. The arson comes just days after the three-year anniversary of the attack on the Afzaal family in London. It took place just a short drive .
