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27 January 2016

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Racist arson attack in unionist Village

● Daniel Cirpaci with his family's burned-out car

A ROMANIAN FAMILY TARGETED in the latest racist attack carried out by unionist thugs have vowed to leave their home in the UDA-dominated Village area of south Belfast.

The car belonging to Daniel Cirpaci was torched in the early hours of Tuesday morning 26 January, within an hour of the 25-year-old arriving home from work at Moy Park in Ballymena.

The father of two young boys (aged five and three) now says that his family are “very scared” and that his wife is insisting on leaving their Ebor Street home.

Cirpaci now fears for his livelihood and future employment as he is not sure when he can replace the car which was gutted in what the PSNI is describing as a “racially-motivated hate crime”.

In the run-up to the arson attack the Romanian man said he has been subjected to racial abuse and suffered frequent discrimination.

In December, just days before Christmas, graffiti saying “Locals Only” was daubed on a derelict property in Windsor Avenue, leading to Windsor Park soccer ground, and just yards away from the Cirpaci home on Ebor Street.

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