United Natives: ROMANIAN GYPSIES ATTACKED IN NORTHERN IRELAND

Thursday, June 18, 2009

ROMANIAN GYPSIES ATTACKED IN NORTHERN IRELAND

ROMANIAN GYPSIES ATTACKED IN NORTHERN IRELAND

"The thugs used bricks and bottles to drive more than 100 Romanian Gypsies from their homes in a wave of attacks. On Wednesday, the victims were sheltering in a community center after a church plucked them off a Belfast street.

The grim images from this week — families carrying possessions in bundled blankets, a mother clutching her 5-day-old baby — are more evidence of rising anti-immigrant sentiment across Europe, but also of a situation unique to Northern Ireland: new fault lines in its tragic history of ethnic divisions."

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