Police in Westbrook, Maine are investigating after at least four threatening letters were found at a local apartment complex threatening violence against Muslims.
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Police canvassed the complex in Westbrook, just outside of Portland, and found a second identical note. But those residents did not report the threats to police.
Upon an inspection of the complex, it was discovered that two similar pieces of paper with the same typewritten threat had been found by Iraqi residents of the complex, Roberts said.
“The people who have come forward have all been Iraqi”, Westbrook Police Chief Janine Roberts said at a news conference Wednesday.
Adnan Fazeli, the Freeport man who died fighting for ISIS, previously lived at the apartment complex, according to police. Police and building residents found several of them around the building.
The threats came two days after federal court documents unsealed in Portland revealed that former ME resident Adnan Fazeli was fighting for the Islamic State group when he was killed a year ago in Lebanon, the Portland Press Herald reported.
“We really need to change the perspective of those people that are committing the crimes so those people that those societal challenges”, said Roberts. Police said they are working closely with the management of the apartment complex and the local Iraqi community to identify those responsible for what they are considering a hate crime.
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Anyone with information is asked to call police at 207-854-2531 or 207-591-8117.
