Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as ‘hate crime’

A mosque in Eastern Sussex was damaged by fire when the police investigated it as a hate crime after the arson report.

Saturday evening around 21:50 in Peacehaven Phyllis Boulevard Mosque Firefighters were called.

Sussex police said in a statement, although no one was injured in the incident, the front entrance of the building and a car parked outside was damaged. Police, the incident “was treated as a hate crime”, he added.

“We understand the concerns caused by the community and the effect to be felt by the Muslim society,” Det Supt Karrie Bohanna said. He said.

He continued: “There is already more police at the scene, and there are additional patrols to provide assurance in other places of worship in the district.”

At that time, the police address any information from the region, such as CCTV, door bell or Dashcam images, and described the case as a “fast -moving investigation”.

A volunteer in the mosque, a volunteer who wants to be named, BBC’ye two people trying to enter through the front door, just to find out that he was locked.

They then poured a liquid into the entrance and near a car parked outside, which is near a burning car.

“It could have been murder, ded Adam said, two people in the mosque have managed to escape, he added.

The video circulating on social media seems to show that a large fire in Balaclavas is approaching an entrance before spreading.

The images were not confirmed by the BBC.

Following an attack outside a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday, there is a renewed focus around security in places where two Jewish people were killed.

The suspect killed at the scene was called Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian origin.