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06/10/2003
Catholic family forced to move following attack
A Catholic family in Antrim are to move out of their home after it was attacked on Sunday night.
A female occupant, who was in the house with her two children and boyfriend, said she saw several masked men at the front of her Donegore Drive home. The gang began shouting obscenities before smashing in the front windows. A car at the front of the house was also damaged.
However, no one was injured in the attack.
South Antrim Sinn Féin representative Martin Meehan condemned the attack.
"This is the latest blatantly sectarian attack on a Catholic family in Antrim. It is part of a sustained campaign by unionists to intimidate Catholics from mixed estates in the town," he said.
"Many nationalists will be watching closely the response of the various unionist political leaderships in the town in the face of this latest attack."
(MB)
A female occupant, who was in the house with her two children and boyfriend, said she saw several masked men at the front of her Donegore Drive home. The gang began shouting obscenities before smashing in the front windows. A car at the front of the house was also damaged.
However, no one was injured in the attack.
South Antrim Sinn Féin representative Martin Meehan condemned the attack.
"This is the latest blatantly sectarian attack on a Catholic family in Antrim. It is part of a sustained campaign by unionists to intimidate Catholics from mixed estates in the town," he said.
"Many nationalists will be watching closely the response of the various unionist political leaderships in the town in the face of this latest attack."
(MB)
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