“People are scared to come here,” says Romanian nationwide Marius Boros, who moved to the UK 13 years in the past and now runs a grocery store on Dudley High Street.
There are “a lot of fights, knives, guns” exterior, he says.
Mini-marts promoting lower-worth, unlawful items – together with medicine – are destroying his enterprise, says Boros. “I work really hard, everything I had, I invested here… I’m very close to losing everything.”
Meanwhile, hair salon proprietor Diane Shawe believes native criminals are attempting to push her out. Her store home windows have been smashed 4 instances, she says, every time in the midnight.
CCTV footage confirmed how males in hoodies threw bricks at her store home windows in the early hours, shortly after the glass had been changed.
“They want the shop. They’re going to make it expensive for me until they get their own way,” says Shawe, whose prospects embrace individuals with most cancers and alopecia
After one of many assaults, she explains, two males referred to as into the store and tried to intimidate her, saying they wished the premises to arrange a barber store.
“One guy asked me, am I ready to sell now?”
