A driver has been suspended and a hate crime inquiry has been opened after a Jewish man was trapped inside a bus.
David Abraham, an Orthodox Jew, accused the driver of locking him inside a bus in Stamford Hill, north London, and telling him: "I don't like Jewish people."
The Metropolitan Police confirmed it has opened a hate crime investigation into the incident, and the bus operator, Arriva, has suspended the driver while it carries out inquiries. Mr Abraham tried to take the bus on his way home from his synagogue at around 1.35pm on Monday.
However, while attempting to pay the 52-year-old accidently dropped his bank card into the driver's cabin.
He said that when he asked for the driver, who has not been named, to return the card, he was told: "No, I am not giving it to you... I don't want to see a Mossad agent in my face... I don't like Jewish people."
According to Mr Abraham, when he asked the other passengers to help him, "they were nervous and they [asked the driver] why he was behaving like that".
He told The Jewish Chronicle that the other passengers eventually got off the bus.
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