Filipino families flee Northern Irish home after night of 'racist thuggery'
Filipino Michael Sancio was awoken at midnight in fear in his home in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena when masked men began banging loudly on windows at the epicenter of two nights of rioting police have condemned as "racist thuggery."
Sancio, his wife and daughter share the home with another Filipino couple and all five fled with just items like passports to sleep elsewhere on Tuesday night. They plan to stay further outside the town on Wednesday because they feel unsafe at home.
Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the town of 30,000 people for a second successive night on Tuesday. Police are investigating the damaging of property as racially motivated "hate crimes."
REUTERS / BBC
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Filipino Michael Sancio was awoken at midnight in fear in his home in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena when masked men began banging loudly on windows at the epicenter of two nights of rioting police have condemned as "racist thuggery."
Sancio, his wife and daughter share the home with another Filipino couple and all five fled with just items like passports to sleep elsewhere on Tuesday night. They plan to stay further outside the town on Wednesday because they feel unsafe at home.
Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the town of 30,000 people for a second successive night on Tuesday. Police are investigating the damaging of property as racially motivated "hate crimes."
REUTERS / BBC
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00:00so last night i woke up 12 midnight because i heard some people outside and i saw in the
00:12window i saw the other uh guys wearing a black jacket and black
00:19pants and also they wearing a mask it's not it looks like scary like that yeah because they
00:24started banging the window our neighbors so i panicked because i have a daughter inside the
00:30house so i call urgently the police and 20 minutes the police is they come so the protest they
00:39started pushing pushing out and then before they push the the car that our car is they
00:49smashed the window and start to blown up
00:54but some of the locals there they say they're not the target but we scared about that because
01:22we don't know them but and then also we don't don't know them i also mean
01:34they call a friend of mine also filipino they just go there and they pick up us to bring their to
01:55their home to sleepover last night um did you just have to pack up all your stuff like what way did it
02:02work just the important things like the passport then the other stuff we
02:11and now we're not safe uh tonight because there's a rumor they coming back tonight
02:18we're just a big team here not the target so we came here for uh to give my family a better life
02:36and then this happened the tragic happened for me and for my friends
02:45we're scared because i have a kid i have two years old daughter so when i received my husband
03:06chat about what happened last night so um my daughter my daughter my daughter what happened i'm so scared and
03:17uh makes emotion that night
03:22so
03:28so
03:30so
03:32so
03:42We'll see you next time.