Footage has emerged of an aggressive confrontation between Elsternwick locals and a group, believed to be an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, accused of meeting at a school despite Stage 4 lockdown rules.
A video has emerged after a verbal stoush erupted in the street between locals and members believed to be from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect accused of meeting at an Elsternwick school despite Stage 4 lockdown rules.
The footage, uploaded to Twitter on Saturday, shows people confronting the group — believed to be the Satmar Hasidic group — leaving the Adass Israel School while the man filming tells the camera there are more than 50 people flocking from the meeting.
Another man confronts the Jewish group and asks what they are doing out at this time of the night, while the man filming labels the gathering “disgusting”.
“This is crazy,” says one of the men filming, while another exclaims “How dare they”.
A second video shows the situation escalating with a verbal argument breaking out between members of the community and those at the gathering.
One of the men from the gathering chases two of those filming the group as a man can be heard yelling.
A woman confronts one of the men from the gathering saying, “you are disgraceful” and “you are a member of this society”.
Read the article by Jordy Atkinson, Laura Armitage in the Herald Sun.