Hannah Al-Othman

They were throwing bricks towards those windows.

and the house had like a quite a cheap looking but a security camera mounted on the front so it was obvious that you know this house had been a target before we just saw this woman come to the window um and look at from an upstairs window at what was happening outside which was this whole group of you know hundreds of men trying to break into a house um and then i heard a

And it was just a really horrible situation because you couldn't do anything.

The police weren't there.

There's one police car with two officers in, but they were sort of just, you know, they obviously felt they couldn't intervene.

So they were just watching from a distance.

And you could see, and then eventually these men barged the door in and got into the house.

They were targeting any immigrant families.

It was Ugandan families.

It was Sudanese families.

It was Romanian families.

It was Ukrainian families.

So, you know, that was happening there.

And then we sort of moved across the city and then there were wheelie bins set on fire, street furniture.

So the police obviously put up these big plastic roadblocks.

They set fire to them.

There were men walking around with sort of bottles of petrol in their hands.

And then we got to East Belfast.

And then that was where the bus was on fire.

More homes had been set on fire there.