{"id":662881,"date":"2025-12-30T17:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662881\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:06:12","slug":"police-investigate-racial-incident-in-city-centre-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662881\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate &#8216;racial incident&#8217; in city centre store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident took place on December 21<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Police-issue-appeal-after-racial-incident-in-city-centre.jpg\" alt=\"Police have released this image of a man they want to speak to in relation to the incident on December 21\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police have released this image of a man they want to speak to in relation to the incident on December 21(Image: Greater Manchester Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police have issued an appeal following an alleged &#8216;racial incident&#8217; in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-city-centre\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Manchester city centre<\/a>. Officers were called over reports of an incident on December 21 in Mozarella at around 1.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man was heard to be shouting &#8216;hateful comments and racial slurs&#8217; inside the store, Greater Manchester Police said. He initially refused to leave, but after five minutes he left and moved towards the Christmas Markets in Albert Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Today (December 30) the force released an image of a male they want to speak to about the incident. The force said he &#8216;may be able to help with enquiries&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Anyone who recognises the man, or who has any information, is being urged to contact <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/greater-manchester-police\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Greater Manchester PoliceLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a>. Alongside the image, officers wrote in an appeal on the GMP City Centre page: &#8220;Officers are wanting to speak to the man pictured in relation to a racial incident in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" tabindex=\"0\"\/>&#8220;It happened on 21\/12\/25 inside the store Mozarella at around 1.30am when a man was heard shouting hateful comments and racial slurs. He refused to leave but left 5 minutes later and moved towards the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/christmas\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Christmas<\/a> markets in Albert Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We believe the man pictured may be able to help with our enquiries. Any info? Call 101 quoting CRI\/06A2\/0036081\/25.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident took place on December 21Police have released this image of a man they want to speak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,8086,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-662881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-city-centre","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115809614850095851","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}