Sick moment vile yob shouts ‘f*** foreigners' while setting family's home on FIRE in ‘racist' riot carnage
THIS is the vile moment yobs shouted "f*** foreigners" while setting a family's home on fire in "racist" riot carnage.
Hundreds gathered on the streets of Ballymena in Northern Ireland on Wednesday facing police armed with riot shields and water cannon on the third night of anti-immigrant demonstrations.
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Video footage emerged on social media today showing masked thugs breaking into a house and stoking a fire in the kitchen.
It is unclear who the property belonged to, but a man filming the scenes on his phone can be heard screaming "f*** off foreigners".
He grabs a kettle and while thrusting it into the air in front of a group of thugs, he shouts "yes! f*** the foreigners".
The protests erupted in the northern town of Ballymena after the arrest of two teenagers accused of attempting to rape a young girl.
The pair appeared Monday in court, where they asked for a Romanian interpreter.
Police have not confirmed the ethnicity of the teenagers, who remain in custody, but areas attacked on Monday and Tuesday included neighbourhoods where Romanian migrants live.
Ministers from every party in the province's power-sharing executive strongly condemned "the racially motivated violence witnessed in recent days".
Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the unrest in Ballymena "mindless violence".
Around 20 miles southeast of the town, masked men set a leisure centre in Larne on fire.
The centre was temporarily sheltering people from Ballymena who had been evacuated.
Masked yobs set fire to NI leisure centre 'used to house locals fleeing riots' as violence hits Ballymena for 3rd night
People living in Ballymena described "terrifying" scenes in which attackers had targeted "foreigners" over the previous days.
Some people fixed signs to their houses indicating they were Filipino residents, or hung up British flags.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Fein vice-president, called the violence "abhorrent".
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said in a statement that its officers "came under sustained attack over a number of hours with multiple petrol bombs, heavy masonry, bricks and fireworks in their direction".
Some of the injured officers required hospital treatment.
Police Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson on Tuesday denounced the violence as "racist thuggery" and said it was "clearly racially motivated and targeted at our minority ethnic community and police".
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