Racist attack on Polish wearing Celtic shirts

A racist attack in Londonderry's Waterside is believed to have been started because a Polish immigrant couple were wearing Glasgow Celtic shirts in a Protestant area.


Katrina Kordula, of the Polish Welfare Association, said that the attack at Emerson Street was one of the worst she had ever seen. In the attack on their home over the weekend a Polish couple, their two-year-old child and three male relatives had to barricade themselves into bedrooms while a gang armed with a hatchet rampaged through the house destroying the furniture.

Katrina Kordula said yesterday that the whole side of the stairs had been ripped out and the television, "which they only purchased last week, has now a massive gaping hole in it. The internal doors, every single on of them, has been smashed. I have never seen the like of that before."

Waterside DUP councillor William Hay said that the wearing of Glasgow Celtic jerseys was no excuse for what had happened. "None whatsoever, that bully boys and thugs could go in and wreck a family home in the way this was wrecked should not have happened," said Mr Hay.

The Polish family have now been moved to another location in the city.

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