2023-11-23 21:26:30
An unknown assailant attacked five people with a knife in Dublin. Among the victims are three children. About it reports Irish capital police on November 23.
According to law enforcement officials, the attack took place in a square in the center of Dublin. Now a 5-year-old girl, a 30-year-old woman, and a man are in serious condition in hospital. Two other children suffered minor injuries, one of whom was discharged.
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The attacker has already been detained. Police say he is a 50-year-old man. By information Irish broadcaster RTE reported that passers-by who witnessed the incident overpowered the attacker and knocked the knife out of his hands. The police, who ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack in the first hour following the incident, now report that they are considering all versions.
Police have not disclosed the suspect’s nationality. How transmit Vedomosti reported online that the attacker was allegedly a native of Algeria.
After the incident, protesters began to gather near the square where the attack took place. How reports Irish Independent, they bombarded several police officers with pyrotechnics and also set fire to a car and a bus.
Demonstrators shouting anti-immigrant slogansPolice Commissioner Drew Harris told RTE that the protesters were “a group of crazed hooligans driven by far-right ideology.”
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Due to the unrest in the area of the square, some streets were also closed, including for public transport.
How reports TASS, citing the social networks of the leader of the opposition party Sinn Fein, Mary Lou MacDonald, the attack occurred near a primary Catholic school. All subjects are taught in Irish (Gaelic).
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