Romanian Gypsies Forced From Belfast Homes After Streak of Racist Attacks

AP: Thugs used bricks and bottles to drive more than 100 Romanian Gypsies from their homes in a wave of attacks. On Wednesday, the victims were sheltering in a community center after a church plucked them off a Belfast street.



The grim images from this week—families carrying possessions in bundled blankets, a mother clutching her 5-day-old baby—are more evidence of rising anti-immigrant sentiment across Europe, but also of a situation unique to Northern Ireland: new fault lines in its tragic history of ethnic divisions.