More families leave after racist attacks
Published Friday, 26 June 2009
Sixty-eight Romanians who fled their homes in Belfast after a spate of racist attacks are to leave Northern Ireland on Friday and return to Romania.
Twenty-five other members of the Roma community have already left the province after attempts to persuade them to stay failed.
Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie last week revealed that air fares were being paid out of an emergency fund.
Just 17 people who were caught up in the violence in the south of the city this month, have decided to stay on in Northern Ireland.
Ms Ritchie said she deeply regretted the decision by the Romanians to leave.