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Monday, 24 March 2008

A POLISH man has told how he is desperate to move from Ballymun following a number of vicious racist attacks.
Lukasz Rynkowski has been staying with friends in Shangan Hall for the past few months but now says he’s had enough and wants to move away from the area.
“The atmosphere in Ballymun is not nice,” he told Northside People.
“There are always gangs of young kids hanging around who are really quite intimidating and aggressive.
“I’m generally afraid of going out in the evening as these teenagers have no respect for adults.”
Lukasz, a journalist with Polish newspaper Polska Gazeta, has lived in Ireland for less than a year. But already he’s had a number of nasty experiences.

“I was outside the door of the house recently talking on my mobile when a group of kids started throwing stones at me,” he recalled.
“They obviously heard that I was speaking a foreign language.
“I couldn’t believe that they would be so hostile and vicious. I believe it was a racist attack.”
He added: “Perhaps this kind of attitude is instilled in these young people in their home environment.”
Lukasz’s has also fallen victim to non-racist crime in Ballymun. Just last week his car was stolen from a secured car park in the area.
“I was about to drive to work when I saw that the car was gone, all that was left was just glass on the ground,” he explained.
“I wasn’t able to get any information on the car. I believe that gardai had caught the thieves but I wasn’t able to find out where my car was put.”
Lukasz is now desperately trying to move away from Ballymun.
“Yes I’m absolutely looking for somewhere else to live,” he told Northside People.
“I’m not living here by choice. My experiences of living in this area have been pretty bad in general.”
Lukasz said the deaths of the two Polish men who were assaulted in Drimnagh last month has changed the way he feels about some areas in Dublin.
“It was a real eye opener for me,” he revealed.
“It changed my opinion of Dublin generally although I know that some parts of the city are more dangerous than others. I know that there are good and bad people in society, unfortunately there is just a bigger group of bad people living in Ballymun.”

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