Footage shows a group of men in Belfast surrounding and attacking two cars, forcing their drivers to flee in suspected racially motivated hate crimes.
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At least a dozen men, some masked, targeted the motorists near Connswater retail park in what appeared to be the latest incident in a vigilante campaign against migrants in the east of the city. Shortly before the incidents a crowd had gathered at the retail park to protest against the prosecution of a man charged with inciting hatred earlier this month. A simmering campaign against foreigners and people of colour in Belfast and other parts of county Antrim has escalated since the anti-migrant riots in England last year
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