A row broke out in south Melbourne after a group of strictly-Orthodox Jews were accused of breaking local lockdown restrictions.
Footage posted on Twitter shows a confrontation between locals and Charedim leaving the Adass Israel School on Saturday night.
In one video, the cameraman is charged at, prompting him to yell: “These people are breaking corona rules and they're trying to attack me... they’re trying to attack me.”
@SouthwickMP - This is going on in your area. Can you do something? Police didn't seem to do a lot as they're now back at it again today pic.twitter.com/GAE61CGbQk
— DeadPaul (@___deadpaul___) October 11, 2020
The Charedi man then proceeds to scream in another woman’s face, who calls him “disgraceful”.
“You are a member of this society,” she shouted. The cameraman then asks the worshiper to “get out of her face”.
The footage shows more than five strictly-Orthodox Jews gathered together. The current restrictions in Melbourne permit gatherings of five people – plus one faith leader in the case of religious gatherings.
In another video, the cameraman claims: “All of these people and about 50 more were in this school.”
Speaking to the local 3AW radio station, one of the men who recorded the clash said: “People from the mass gathering were very aggressive and coming very close to people's faces. Not distancing from us at all.
“Over the past days and nights there's been these mass gatherings happening across the road and several residents were out there.”
According to Daily Mail Australia, Victoria Police attended the area that night following reports, but that no breaches of coronavirus regulations were identified.