Police want to speak to this man (Picture: SWNS)

Police are investigating after a bag allegedly containing pork sausages was thrown into Finsbury Park Mosque.

Detectives have released CCTV of a man they wish to speak with in connection with the incident.

The incident is being treated as a religiously-aggravated hate crime, police said.

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‘This is really quite offensive to us,’ Mohammed Kozbar told the Islington Tribune.


‘We are taking it very seriously.

‘We want to put a very strong message out there that we will not put up with this.’

Detective Inspector Ralph Coates of Islington Community Safety Unit said: ‘We take hate crime extremely seriously as we know how destructive these offences can be, both to individuals and to communities.’



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