Hannah Al-Othman
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She was unconscious for around half an hour.
Stella was on the phone to the emergency services.
They were trying to tell her what to do.
And one of the sort of most poignant things that they told me that really got to me was they were told by, I presume it was the 999 operator, to go and put on their care uniform.
Because if these men break into your house, they may have some sympathy for you.
They may potentially view you differently if they realise that you're a care worker.
So I arrived sort of late afternoon on Tuesday and at first it felt fairly quiet.
So I got here and there wasn't really anything much going on.
But then, you know, reports began to filter through that things were starting to happen.
It's a very loyalist area in West Belfast.
say two to three hundred people.
It was quite an odd gathering at first because they recited the Lord's Prayer.
And then there was sort of cheering and clapping and then basically they started marching off and
And then basically where the march was heading to was to a house of a Romanian family who had been targeted twice before.
And they started throwing fireworks through the letterbox.
They started throwing bricks at the house.
The window had clearly already been smashed in the past because it was boarded up, the downstairs window.
But there were sort of smaller windows downstairs and upstairs.