One of the Northern-Irish who defended the Romanian Romas during the violence in South Belfast received a firebomb threat. He said that this was the right time to defeat the racist gangs, while they still count just a few members. The British mass-media continues the debate on the racism in Ulster. Romanian authorities in Belfast are preparing to repatriate most of the abused Romas.
Paddy Meehan was announced by the Northern-Irish Police (PSNI) that his home is under firebomb threat, Belfast Telegraph informs. The police link the bomb warning to the violent events from the last ten days.
The racists have to be defeated while they're still in small groups
Patrick Meehan, campaigner who helped organising the anti-racist protest and also took shifts to guard the homes of the Romanian Romas in South Belfast, didn’t sleep at his place last night.
"I’m not intending on leaving the area, I want to make that very plain. My message to these people is that they are isolated, they have nothing to offer the people of the area. They have just shown their cowardly actions by targeting a very vulnerable section of people and now they have tried to go after the people who have tried to defend them. It is important that local communities are mobilised to defeat these groups now while they are small and that is exactly what I and other local residents are now determined to do.", he told Belfast Telegraph.
He has spoken with the Romanian families after they have been relocated and assured them he will take any measures for them to be safe.
PSNI was accused that it took too much time to respond to the attacks. Ulster Police Board contradicted the accusations, by saying that the police acted professionally, according to the protocol.
The latest attacks against the Romanian ethnic minority from Belfast cont
