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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll in Ballymena

‘The place is empty, a lot have left’: Ballymena weighs up impact of anti-migrant riots

Riot police vans lined up at the top of a a street of terrace houses, as flames burn on a patch of the road. Two people are looking on from behind a wall in the foreground
Riot police vans at Clonavon Terrace in Ballymena, which along with adjoining streets was the main flashpoint of the violence. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

Since Ballymena erupted in three nights of anti-migrant riots last month, tranquility has returned to the County Antrim town. The rioters, after all, got what they wanted. They won.

Dozens of Romanian and Bulgarian Roma families that fled have not returned and those that remain keep a low profile – they do not linger on the streets and are scarcely visible.

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