Poles attacked in Northern Ireland for being Catholic

The family consisting of five men, a woman and a two-year old child barricaded themselves in one of the rooms while the attackers demolished the flat. The police believe that the attack was related to the fact that the Polish catholic family lived in the protestant district. "It was a completely unprovoked attack on an innocent family, stated Katarina Kordula from the Polish Welfare Association," They have no idea why it happened to them." The family decided to leave the flat in the protestant district. The attack is one of several similar cases in the region. Several days earlier in the same region of Londonderry two Poles were beaten up when they tried to stop the bandits demolishing their car and in March a group of seven men attacked a 51-year old man in his own house. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 9) E.B.