Racist attacks in Belfast

[Tezcatlipoca]

"Romanian gypsies beware beware. Loyalist C18 are coming to beat you like a baiting bear"

Originally Posted by The Observer

By Henry McDonald, The Observer, Sunday 21 June 2009

Combat 18's message, broadcast by text and email all over Northern Ireland last week, was hate-filled and menacing:

"Romanian gypsies beware beware

"Loyalist C18 are coming to beat you like a baiting bear

"Stay out of South Belfast and stay out of sight

"And then youse will be alright

"Get the boat and don't come back

"There is no black in the Union Jack

"Loyalist C18 'whatever it takes'."

The rhyming racist warning has been picked up on mobile phones and computers across loyalist areas of the north of Ireland since the start of last week when the province hit the world headlines again for all the wrong reasons.

This weekend 110 Romanians, including many small children, some as young as six weeks, are under armed police guard at a secret location in Belfast. Seven days ago the 20 families were driven out of several properties on the edge of the city's university district, victims of a racist gang which repeatedly attacked their homes over a number of days. Many of the immigrants, almost all exclusively from the Roma community, have said they want to return home rather than stay in a city being branded as the racist capital of Europe.

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[Fingy]

Sick of the bloody helicopter over my house 24 hours a day again, assuming they must be somewhere nearby. Grrrr!!!

[Russ]

Do-gooders made it worse?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8153386.stm

[Fingy]

"The PSNI should have mitigated the need for these 'protection people', reassuring families of their protection, along with sending a confident message to all that they were now in control," he continued.

Ahhhhhh. The PSNI (with such a high percentage of crap, and incompitent new officers throught out its rank structure) screwed it up again. What a shocking surprise....

[lucy7]

Originally Posted by DaiNasty

I'm amused by the efforts of the BBC and almost all the media folks to avoid mentioning the "G" word.

Almost without exception the reports have simply stated Romanian and never said anything about Roma or Gypsy.

Now I wonder why that might be?

Bacause that would be Gypsist!

---------- Post added at 17:24 ---------- Previous post was at 17:20 ----------

Like all types of people, its the bad apples that give them all a bad name.
I have met many travellers up in Appleby, some of the most loving family oriented people ever, then in the next caravan, some right rotters!
Just like all of us really!

[fatmat8]

they were sending young children into tesco to fill their pockets and run out again
this came from a tesco employee

Originally Posted by fatmat8

they were sending young children into tesco to fill their pockets and run out again
this came from a tesco employee

Did you ask how many kids of other ethnic groupings were doing the same?