A Polish national was last week assaulted in the English town of Tipton "on racial grounds," a UK-based daily has reported.

On August 8, while returning home from a walk, the woman and her three children were verbally assaulted by a group of women and told to “go back to Poland,” the victim of the attack, Anna Maria Serafin Podolska, said on her Facebook account.

“One of [the attackers] followed us, and once we reached our street I turned around and was struck in the face with a fist; a fight broke out,” Podolska said.

She added: “When I was lying on the street, 15 women or more, of different ages, ran up to us. I received blows from all sides.”

Police and medical personnel arrived at the scene after the victim’s neighbours were alerted by the woman’s son.

“I have been living in Tipton nearly five years and similar situations have been happening all the time [such as] child beatings, name-calling,” Podolska told the Polish Express daily. “Several weeks ago I was attacked with water-filled bags,” she added.

In April, a gang numbering 20 people chased, struck down and beat a 20-year-old Pole with a nail-studded wooden plank “in a racially aggravated assault” in the British city of Hull, local police told Poland's PAP news agency at the time.

Around a million Poles live in Britain, comprising the largest national minority in that country.

(aba/gs)

Source: Radio Zet, Polish Express