Demonstrators in Leeds have said they have no regrets about taking to the streets to riot after a local family had their children taken away during a police call to reports of ‘hostility’ towards social workers this week.
‘The Romanians will do this again,’ one young Romanian woman told The Times. ‘We all took to the streets because the family are desperate. This is a typical Romanian response, we are just fighting for each other.’
‘This would not happen to an English family. This is happening because we are Romanian. This feels like racism. This does not happen in Romania,’ she added, as a local charity support young Romanian and Roma people in care said the family had been victims of ‘systemic racism’.
Leeds City Council said on Friday that representatives of the Roma community had met with the council to express their concerns about the ‘family matter’, and that the council had ‘agreed to undertake an urgent review’ of the case and work with local groups ‘for the best interests of…
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