At least two dozen separate racially-motivated hate crimes beyond those linked to the large scale street violence earlier this month were recorded by police over the last just over six weeks.
The crimes include the smashing of windows, the painting of graffiti, the hurling of slurs and includes a petrol bomb attack on a mosque in Newtownards.
![Muhammad Soufi whose East Belfast home was attacked.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has made five more arrests and dealt with a number of race-related hate crime, incidents and disorder last night, Wednesday 7th August.
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While the PSNI was unable immediately to furnish exact figures, a trawl of publicly issued statements reveals at least two dozen times since the start of July where the force concluded the crime was racially-motivated.
But separately the Housing Executive said it has received reports of 22 hate crime incidents targeting both tenants and staff in the first week of this month.
Communities Minister Gordon Lyons, on a visit to Antrim to meet the agency’s staff with Chief Executive Grainia Long, revealed there were 131 “hate crime incidents” linked to NIHE properties or staff over the last year.
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“These target people who are entitled to live in safety and peace in their homes and also housing staff who are simply doing their job,” Mr Lyons said.