Roscommon/Ros Comán
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Hi,
I am a chronically ill and disabled person being targeted for 3 years by
Polish men and teenagers, who seem to be here without the female
element of their families and don't spend a lot of time in employment.
They thought they could pin me to the spot with a vicious dog for fun
when I was learning to walk again, and threaten and punish me for
talking to the police. This is all happening next to a nursing home in
rural Ireland, Elphin, where I was once a tenant in the grounds. The
immediate neighbours turned a blind eye when they had a chance to help
and things escalated to a high pitch. My neighbour will be in court for
the third time end of this month, but I think the most they can catch
him for is straying dog - even though his last time in court he
actually admitted to coming after me in his car and preventing me from
walking - this would terrify anyone, but amounts to GBH in someone who
is already battling chronic illness and can barely walk. I am faced with
moving, though I am not mobile enough to move at this point, nor have I
anywhere to move to that promises protection from these psychos. I
can't leave the house without a running camera, and have had to get
cctv, a fortune I can't afford to be spending. All this in rural
Ireland, Elphin, Co. Roscommon, and having had to go above the local
gardai who also turned a blind eye, to the gardai in Boyle who at least
got him to court and where a good judge ruled that this dog be staked to
the ground at all times- not being attacked by a dog everytime I
stepped outside my back door gave me a long delayed chance to turn the
corner on my illness, though I have a long way to go. However, the men
and teens long took over from the dog. And apart from all the shouting
and intimidation and abuse, I'm still in a position where this man burns
open fires every week on the hottest days of summer to burn his
recycling, being just opposite to me I get the full blast, everything is
destroyed in ashes and the whole house has to be shut up in crucifying
heat and smoke once a week in the hottest weather - how many people burn
open fires in a cul de sac? Or how many people have to live with it?
He is not a council tenant so they say they can't do anything. I have a
good photo of things I had drying outside destroyed in ash of burning
newspaper when it suddenly rained. If he is stopped this unbearable
activity, he and his friends and their sons and their school friends
will punish me again, not that he ever stops really.
I believe
sophisticated exposure within his own community and the broader
community is the solution, to know that he is actually being observed in
all of his schemes would be a help in this situation - but I have not
found these doors. I got a message to the Polish Integration Officer who
shot down my efforts with no help. I also emailed the Polish chaplaincy
for a contact and beyond the automated response to say they got my
email, they did not respond either - quite unbelievable.
I think
Irish society absolutely has to deal with social disease which has
repercussions for everyone, and is all the more horrific when the ill
and disabled are targeted making their lives and illness even more
difficult. I want to find people who want action, with ideas for
strategy in dealing effectively with antisocial behaviour. These are
thugs with their sons in free english education here [priceless on the
continent], and sending money back to Poland, where it seems the other
half of their family still is, while sitting drinking Budweiser for
years on end between brief employment, getting free legal aid and free
Polish interpreters in court [guess how much they get an hour?] while I
have been told I can't get home help or the medical furniture I need
because of cutbacks, so they are subject to public pressure.
Mary.
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