Monday, October 06, 2014

We're not safe in Belfast, says dad after racist thugs smash window and set car ablaze...

A father of two young girls fought back tears as he told how he was too afraid to stay in his Belfast home after a terrifying race hate attack.

Ashraful Alam, whose daughters are seven and four, saw his window smashed and his next door neighbour's car set ablaze.

The ordeal of the two families is the latest in a wave of hate crimes in Northern Ireland over the past 18 months.

It prompted the head of the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities to say the threat posed to foreign nationals here was higher than ever.

And Patrick Yu predicted the problem would only get worse unless urgent action is taken.

The perpetrators struck at 3am yesterday in the Ulsterville Avenue area of south Belfast. Their targets were a Bangladeshi family – Mr Alam's – and the Kuwaiti family next door. Full story...

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