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| Romas made to leave house in city | |
| (about 13 hours later) | |
| Twenty-one Romas, including children and infants, have been taken into emergency accommodation after being evicted from a house in south Belfast. | Twenty-one Romas, including children and infants, have been taken into emergency accommodation after being evicted from a house in south Belfast. |
| The three families were asked to leave by their landlord. | The three families were asked to leave by their landlord. |
| Some of the residents in the house had only recently returned to Northern Ireland after being targeted in a series of racist attacks in June. | Some of the residents in the house had only recently returned to Northern Ireland after being targeted in a series of racist attacks in June. |
| It is thought rental payments and the landlord's concerns about safety in the dwelling were the main issues disputed. | It is thought rental payments and the landlord's concerns about safety in the dwelling were the main issues disputed. |
| They had initially refused to leave, saying that they had nowhere else to go, but social services organised for them to stay in hostels. | |
| The landlord had arranged for the electricity to be turned off on Tuesday afternoon. | |
| BBC reporter Ciaran Tracey said bare cables, sewage and damp problems were clearly visible inside the house. | BBC reporter Ciaran Tracey said bare cables, sewage and damp problems were clearly visible inside the house. |
| Bernie Kelly, from Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, said: "All we know is that it was unsafe, there's electricity issues and it just wasn't safe, we weren't happy with them staying there so they've moved, they've moved peacefully. | |
| When we arrived here, we arrived with the intention of settling down. We arrived here for our children, for our family. Romanian man | |
| "We are meeting in the morning and we are going to look at longer term plans for them." | "We are meeting in the morning and we are going to look at longer term plans for them." |
| One Romanian man said they had not been put off coming to Northern Ireland by the attacks in June. | |
| "We heard about them on Romanian television but we're still not afraid and that's why I brought my family here, it's a better way of living," he said. | |
| "We know of the racist attacks. So far things are good, nothing's happened to us. | |
| "When we arrived here, we arrived with the intention of settling down. We arrived here for our children, for our family. | |
| "The life and the poverty in Romania is so bad, you cannot imagine, that's why we are here." |