Riot-ready police guarded the streets while crowds chanted taunts and fired pyrotechnics.
A car and a double-decker bus were set on fire near O’Connell Bridge, and mobs looted one of the main shopping streets of the Irish capital.
VIDEO: Violence in Dublin after school attack on scale not seen for decades
11 police cars and three buses were destroyed
On Friday, police said 34 people had been arrested and 32 people were expected to appear in court on Friday morning.
Thirteen shops were badly damaged or looted, 11 police cars and three buses were destroyed.
VIDEO: Shops are being robbed in Dublin
VIDEO: A double-decker bus was set on fire in Dublin, shops were looted
The unrest was the worst in Dublin for years. They got up near one of the schools for the attacker seriously injuring a five-year-old girl with a knife.
Two other children and two adults – a woman and the suspected attacker – were also taken to the hospital.
Scanpix/AP Photo/Chaos in Dublin: Violence broke out after a knife attack outside a school
Rumors about the attacker’s nationality on social media helped fuel the unrest after the attack. Police describe the suspect only as a man in his sixties.
Reuters/Scanpix photo/Chaos in Dublin: after a knife attack outside a school, violence broke out
Police Chief Drew Harris blamed a “completely deranged group with far-right ideology” and warned against disinformation.
Some protesters carried placards reading “Irish Lives Matter” and Irish flags through the migrant-heavy area of the city.
One protester told AFP that “these bastards are attacking the Irish”.
Reuters/Scanpix photo/Chaos in Dublin: after a knife attack outside a school, violence broke out
Ireland is experiencing a chronic housing crisis. According to the government, hundreds of thousands of housing units are missing.
Public discontent has fueled anti-refugee and asylum-seeker sentiment, with far-right activists fueling such sentiments at rallies and on social media.
By late evening, senior police officer Patrick McMenamin said calm had been restored and that no serious injuries had been reported.
“This is banditry for which there was no basis,” he said.
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2024-09-03 07:45:09