Man wants to move after bricks thrown through windows of property in racially motivated attack
Victim of east Belfast attack says he feels safer living in a hostel
The victim of a racially motivated attack in east Belfast has said he no longer feels safe in his home and wants to move.
Mutasim Mohammed and a friend were asleep at his home on Kincraig Avenue when bricks were thrown through two of the front windows of the propety shortly after 11pm on Tuesday.
No-one was injured in the attack. Three males wearing grey tracksuits were seen running from the scene.
Mr Mohammed, who has lived in Northern Ireland for three years, previously lived in a hostel which he said he felt more safe in.
Police say they are investigating the incident as ‘racially motivated’.
“No one should be victimised or intimidated due to their ethnicity and there are no excuses,” PSNI Sergeant McAleavy said.
“Hate has a far-reaching and damaging impact on the whole community and we are committed to doing everything possible to prevent incidents, support victims and pursue perpetrators.”
Sinn Féin councillor Padraig Donnelly describd the attack as “sickening”.
“There can be no tolerance for racism, hate, discrimination, or intimidation anywhere in our society.
“All political and community leaders must call out and challenge these disgraceful actions.
”The repulsive, racist thugs involved in this behaviour must be brought to justice, and I would encourage anyone with information to contact the police.”
The PSNI has asked anyone with information or footage of the incident to contact them on 101.
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Utterly sickening. Same people who erect flags for their murder squads and we’ve been gaslit into normalising it.
Move south of the border. Might get a funny looks off the odd person (as in 1/1,000) but experiences like this simply wont happen.
Good ole’ Norn Iron. Great spot. Oh to be British eh?
Wearing the shirt of your enemy
Wish I could say I have a home like this guy, after years on the social housing list from 2010, and nothing offered as I work and have no special circumstances to get extra points. I can only dream of my social housing getting attacked. Also had some bad years where I lived in a hostel for 3 years with no social housing offers. Now my head is clear and working again and renting again. I gave up on the social housing in 2021 as the points system sucks. I would bite your arm off to get an NIHE offer. so, bring on the trolls to start shouting. My post has nothing to do with this story. Attacks on anyone are wrong , wrong ,wrong. They are mindless thugs. It’s after reading the line in the country for 3 years, and living in social housing makes me sad for myself and others with no hope of getting on the social housing list, as I have no sad back story.
More needs to be done from the unionist parties in calling this out, a Sinn Fein Councillor in East Belfast is sadly not going to do the trick. Most of these attacks seem to stem from that side of the city. It’s sad and pathetic in 2025.
Why do news articles always insist on publishing someone’s street name? Especially after an incident like this where other scumbags now have the opportunity to target the victim again?
Our wee small minded country.
All the people of Britain have asked for is an end to mass, and illegal, immigration. We are ignored time and time again.
Is it any wonder violence is the result?
What a surprise, it’s a loyalist area, who would have thought, strike me down
Sinn fein against racism, that’s rich coming from them.
Yet people will say “I’m not racist I just don’t like them immigrants” this is the reality of trying to fence sit an issue like this. Unvetted immigration to NI is incredibly low with under 2,000 being here at this moment in time, majority being young people, my family have worked with children who have escaped modern slavery and exploration rings in Central Europe and have arrived here not because they chose, but because they had to.
By platforming these stop the boats type you pave the way for racially motivated hate crimes from groups like this, freedom of speech does not allow you to actively oppress, or hurt others.
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