Hannah Al-Othman

So, you know, they said, this is what we'd left our home and we've got nothing.

You know, Samaya said what had happened had changed her whole view of Belfast.

And how has your experience of Belfast been so far until now?

And she said they hadn't told family back home.

So she said they wouldn't believe this would happen in what she described as a first world country, the United Kingdom.

She said that her family just wouldn't believe it.

Yeah, so I'm just not happy.

She said, I'm potentially caring for their mum, for their granny, and I've left my own mother at home in Uganda to do that.

And, you know, she said, maybe it's high time I go home.

So Belfast was completely dead on Wednesday.

Everything was shut, even in the city centre.

It was like a ghost town.

The only place you could even get anything for dinner was in one of the hotels.

And then in the sort of more residential areas where I went out to, it was quite a strange atmosphere.

And it really, you know, what people were saying really depended on who you spoke to.

So

Some people were actually quite defiant.

And in the Chankil Road area where the Romanian family had been forced out, the neighbours were saying, well, we told them twice to leave.

The windows have been put through twice before and they didn't go.

So this was the last straw.