2023-11-24 09:35:39
Violent clashes attributed to the far right broke out on Thursday evening in Dublin after a knife attack which left several people injured, including three children, in the middle of the day, in which the police ruled out any terrorist motive.
Several vehicles, including a police car and a bus, were set on fire and stores were looted. Calm returned at the end of the evening, after events described as “gratuitous savagery” by Chief Superintendent Patrick McMenamin. No serious injuries were reported despite the “attacks” who targeted the police, added the police official, specifying that up to 400 police officers were mobilized.
Signs « Irish Lives Matter » (“Irish lives matter”) and Irish flags were brandished during these incidents, unprecedented for several years, in which hundreds of people took part.
They broke out in a neighborhood where there is an immigrant population, and against a backdrop of rumors about the origin of the alleged attacker, who the police simply indicated was a man in his fifties. years, who was hospitalized.
Terrorism: what is the nature of the threat in Europe?
The police were targeted by projectiles from a crowd which was also hostile towards “mainstream media”. At around 10 p.m., police said the streets of Dublin city center were now “mostly calm”.
“We will not tolerate a few using appalling facts to sow division”Justice Minister Helen McEntee said in a statement, calling for ” calm “. She further warned that attacks on police must be “condemned” and will be processed “with severity”.
“Rumors” et « insinuations »
A police official, Commissioner Drew Harris, spoke of a “faction of crazy hooligans driven by far-right ideology”.
“Irish people are being attacked by this trash”launched an individual into the clashes, others in the crowd evoking the murder of a young teacher by a Slovak national who was recently sentenced to life in prison.
Faced with a housing crisis, the country has seen the development, under the influence of far-right figures, of an anti-immigration discourse according to which “Ireland is full”.
“Isolated attack”, without terrorist motive
These events occurred after a man attacked several people with a knife outside a school. The five injured people were taken to several hospitals in the Dublin area, police said. They are a woman, three young children and a man, who according to some media is the suspect. A five-year-old girl and the woman, aged around thirty, are ” seriously “ injured, according to police.
” Facts ““are not yet clear”underlined the police, deploring “rumors” et « insinuations » widespread “for malicious purposes”.
A suspect has been arrested, announced Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. According to the police, it concerns a man in his fifties, who was hospitalized. The police are not looking ” nobody else “declared Liam Geraghty, stressing that the investigators ruled out in view of the first elements of the investigation any motive “terrorist”.
#scenes #chaos #Dublin #knife #attack