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A Victorian judge said the media would always choose to report on African-African crime, creating a "false impression" of the scale of the problem.
Victoria County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd told Four Corners of ABC television that regular media coverage of crimes committed by young Africans in the western suburbs of Melbourne had fueled public perception about it.
"This gives the impression … that a very important part of our work is devoted to young Africans in the western suburbs of Melbourne," he told ABC's program. broadcast Monday night.
A "tiny" proportion of the 1,600 people sentenced each year has received media coverage, and the media will not fail to report on the crimes committed by those with African heritage, he said.
"If you are an African delinquent, and certainly if you are a young African of South Sudanese descent from the western suburbs of Melbourne, rest badured that your case will be the subject of a report", did he declare.
His comments follow a political war of words about gang violence in Melbourne and its links with the Afro-Australian community.
People born in Sudan and Southern Sudan represent 0.1% of the total population of Victoria, but the community is responsible for 1% of the crimes committed in that state.
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the authorities should be "honest" about the Sudanese gangs in Victoria, while Interior Minister Peter Dutton said people were scared of dinner in Melbourne because of "the violence of African gangs".
The issue of crime among young Africans in Victoria was noticed in 2012 when the Apex gang appeared, but the debate intensified as a result of the outbreak of violence at the Melbourne Moomba Festival in 2016.
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