2023-11-24 10:02:02
LONDON (AP) — Police in Ireland arrested 34 people following suspected far-right protesters attacked officers Thursday night, damaged shops and set fire to vehicles in central Dublin following an unidentified man stabbed three minors. earlier in the day.
Police chief Commissioner Drew Harris said a police officer suffered serious injuries in the riots that began following news spread that a five-year-old girl was being treated urgently at a hospital in the capital following the attack in front of the police station. school. At least 100 people took to the streets, some armed with metal bars and with their faces hidden.
Harris described the protesters as a “completely lunatic faction of hooligans driven by far-right ideology.”
More than 400 officers, many in riot gear, were deployed across the city center to contain the riots, which police said were “caused by a small group of thugs.” A security cordon was set up around the parliament building, Leinster House, and officers on horseback patrolled nearby Grafton Street.
“These (riots) are scenes we haven’t seen in decades, but what’s clear is that these people have been radicalized on social media and the internet,” Harris told reporters Friday.
“But I don’t want to lose sight of the terrible event in terms of the horrific attack on the schoolchildren and their teacher. “There is an investigation underway,” he added, adding that the disorders were also being investigated.
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