Red doors mark out asylum seekers' houses in English town
MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND | BY PHIL NOBLE Jan 20, 2016
..."Asylum houses have red doors. Everyone knows that," Zubair was quoted as saying. "People were shouting outside the house, calling us hate words, throwing things at our windows."
The Times said it had identified 168 houses owned by Jomast of which 155 had red doors. Reporters spoke to people living at 66 of the properties with red doors and found that 62 of them housed asylum seekers of 22 nationalities.
STRING OF SCANDALS
Stuart Monk, owner and managing director of Jomast, said paint was bought in bulk for use at all its properties as was common practice among landlords.
"It is ludicrous to suggest that this constitutes any form of discrimination, and offensive to make comparisons to a policy of apartheid in Nazi Germany," he said in a statement, referring to headlines and comments in the Times report.
Jomast is highly profitable and Monk's fortune was estimated at 175 million pounds ($248 million) by the Sunday Times last year in its list of the richest people in Britain.
The G4S spokesman said Jomast accepted that the majority of houses where asylum seekers lived had red doors, and had agreed to repaint them so that there would be no dominant color.
The Times said Middlesbrough had one asylum seeker for every 173 residents, the highest concentration anywhere in Britain. uk.reuters.com
MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND | BY PHIL NOBLE Jan 20, 2016
..."Asylum houses have red doors. Everyone knows that," Zubair was quoted as saying. "People were shouting outside the house, calling us hate words, throwing things at our windows."
The Times said it had identified 168 houses owned by Jomast of which 155 had red doors. Reporters spoke to people living at 66 of the properties with red doors and found that 62 of them housed asylum seekers of 22 nationalities.
STRING OF SCANDALS
Stuart Monk, owner and managing director of Jomast, said paint was bought in bulk for use at all its properties as was common practice among landlords.
"It is ludicrous to suggest that this constitutes any form of discrimination, and offensive to make comparisons to a policy of apartheid in Nazi Germany," he said in a statement, referring to headlines and comments in the Times report.
Jomast is highly profitable and Monk's fortune was estimated at 175 million pounds ($248 million) by the Sunday Times last year in its list of the richest people in Britain.
The G4S spokesman said Jomast accepted that the majority of houses where asylum seekers lived had red doors, and had agreed to repaint them so that there would be no dominant color.
The Times said Middlesbrough had one asylum seeker for every 173 residents, the highest concentration anywhere in Britain. uk.reuters.com
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