Furniture belonging to five Polish people has ended up on a loyalist bonfire in Londonderry, it has emerged. It followed the stabbing of a Polish man at the same house on the Fountain Estate a day earlier on Saturday.
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\nThe Polish Welfare Association denied claims that the occupants of the house, had been involved in a rowdy party.<\/p>\n
A settee and fridge freezer were among items on the bonfire. Community leaders in the estate condemned the attack.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Wednesday, Katrina Kordula of the Polish Welfare Association said it was fortunate that the two married couples and a single man had left the house at the time.<\/p>\n
“Thankfully we had the members of the house removed by four o’clock that afternoon,” she said.<\/p>\n
“There’s no doubt in our mind that if they had been in the house that evening, we could have been looking at a murder investigation.”<\/p>\n
‘Ashamed’<\/p>\n
Fountain estate resident William Jackson said he felt ashamed.<\/p>\n
“No matter what happens down that other end (of the estate), if it has been put around that it’s from the Fountain, everybody gets branded the same,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I totally condemn it – it shouldn’t have happened.”<\/p>\n
On Saturday morning, a gang called at the house occupied by the Poles and stabbed a man in the leg. He also suffered a cut to his hand.<\/p>\n
Police said a racial motive for the attack was one line of inquiry.<\/p>\n
The next day at about 1600 BST, most of the furniture was taken from the house in a burglary and ended up on the bonfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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