





Belfast extremists threaten immigrants: Leave our Queen's country or we blow up your houses
The message was signed Ulster Young Militants and was marked with Combat 18's logo. The far-right group made over 100 Romanian gypsy ethnics (travellers) the object of their racism and violence, forcing them to flee their homes in Belfast. Most of them have been repatriated.
Belfast Police said the violence was not the actions of an organised crime group. Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities contradicts this view, though: "I think there is no doubt it was organised against those families," spokesman Patrick Yu said told SkyNews.
The racist acts increased during the last year, through attacks, intimidation, harassment and thefts, Patrick Yu added. In March, supporters of a local team engaged in a fight with the supporters of a Polish team.