A large group of black-clad nationalist protesters have demonstrated outside the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne to demand China extradite a fugitive wanted by police for scalding a White Australian baby boy with hot coffee in a suspected racist hate crime.
About 35 National Socialist Network activists held a banner reading “Yellow grubs, hand over the baby mutilator” and burned effigies of Chinese president Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong, and a portrait of the coffee attack suspect outside the building in the wealthy suburb of Toorak at midday on Saturday.
Prominent right-wing figures Thomas Sewell and Joel Davis then made speeches demanding China extradite the 33-year-old Chinese national who poured boiling coffee on baby Luka in front of his mother in Brisbane in August before managing to escape to his homeland after police issued a vague description during the investigation.
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Nationalist protesters burn Chinese flags and an effigy of Xi Jinping outside the Chinese consulate in Melbourne demanding China extradite a man who attacked a Aussie baby with hot coffee to “get revenge on White people”.
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Chinese media has since reported that the suspect, who had been working in three states on a mix of working holiday and student visas, wanted “revenge on White people” after being denied another Australian visa.
After the burning the flags and effigies the group chanted “White man fight back”, “hail victory” and “blood and honour” before Mr Sewell spoke through a megaphone, saying the situation was “intolerable”.
“Recently a White baby was mutilated by a yellow grub who fled back to China. The Australian government, the police, and the media allowed him to escape the White man’s justice,” Mr Sewell said.
“All we know of this Chinese man is that he had his visa denied, he was trying to get permanent status amongst us, and when his visa was denied he told people he wanted to hurt White people. Specifically White people.
“So what he did, like the coward that he is, he attacked a mutilated a White baby. How much can we tolerate as White people in our own country? When these foreigners come here with no respect for our laws, no respect for our customs, and no respect that it’s our land?
“If there was a White man in China and he poured boiling water on a Chinese baby, you can guarantee the Chinese government would have him strung up. But our government is weak, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s Anthony Albanese, or whether it’s Peter Dutton, they are weak on China.”
Mr Davis wrote on Telegram: “We were there because this yellow grub scalded a White baby, disfiguring the poor infant in a racial hate crime before boarding a plane back to China.
“Weeks have transpired and our pathetic government has done nothing to demand his extradition to Australia, no significant political organisation has publicly demanded his extradition – so today we did.
“There are over a million Chinamen in this country, they take advantage of our hospitality yet show zero respect.
“And they show zero respect because we don’t demand it – this baby mutilator was only able to board the plane without being arrested because the police refused to publicly announce the race of the perpetrator for fear of stoking racial anger in the White Australian community.
“Absolute disgrace. I predict the government will continue to do nothing, but I hope they prove me wrong.”
The suspect is subject to an arrest warrant for acts intending to cause grievous bodily harm after pouring a thermos full of hot coffee onto nine-month-old Luka at Hanlon Park in Stones Corner on August 27, leaving him with severe burns and requiring skin grafts.
Queensland Police released CCTV footage of the man the following day, but did not describe his ethnicity or appeal publicly to Asian immigrant communities for help.
Former Australian Federal Police detective superintendent David Craig said after police revealed that the suspect had escaped that detectives should have immediately told the public they were looking for a man of Asian appearance.
“When a baby has been injured … we need to call out exactly who we are looking for,” he said.
“These are not racial vilification terms, these are identifying terms. He should have been called out as a man of Asian appearance, just like we do with … a person of Caucasian appearance. It didn’t happen quick enough in this case.”
