Northern Ireland is struggling with racially motivated disturbances, police ask for reinforcements

Ballymen. Police in northern Irelandthat has already intervened in the city of Ballymen against racially motivated riots in the city of Ballymen for the third night in a row, she asked for reinforcements from England and Wales.

AFP reported on Thursday.

The riots in the Ballymen last Monday evening, when two teenagers were detained in connection with the alleged attempt to rape the local girl.

The police have not yet published the ethnic origin of the detainees remaining in custody. In court they asked for interpreting to/from Romanian.

Racial motivated riots quickly broke out into violence – the crowd began to attack the police, fire houses, shops and restaurants And targeted to attack foreigners. Police described the situation as « racist hooliganism »

Even on night on Thursday, the troublemakers threw incendiary bottles, cannons and various objects, including the ax. Police used a water cannon again to spread the crowd.

Unlike last nights, the crowd broke up on Thursday night without the repetition of the scenario from previous nights, when houses and shops were burnt, while injuries suffered 32 police officers.

Nevertheless, according to the report of the police service of Northern Ireland (dog), nine more police officers were injured. Police detained six people, including three teenagers.

In interviews with journalists, the inhabitants of Ballymen described the « scary » scenes during which the attackers targeted « foreigners ». Some of them have tables on the houses with the inscription that they were of Philippine origin, others posted British flags.

Although the situation was calmer in the Ballymen, but in Larne, about 32 kilometers away, unknown masked men set fire to

leisure center, which temporarily provided refuge to evacuated people from Ballymen.

Police reported that at the time of the fire there were people who had escaped from the incident without injuries.

The incidents also occurred on Wednesday evening in the cities of Carrickfergus and Newtownabbey near Belfast, as well as in Coleraine in the north of the British province, where rail and bus service had to be suspended.

Assemblies were held in Belfast, but according to the police, they were « mostly calm ».

Political commentator Alex Kane, a former spokesman for the Ulster Unionist Party, told AFP that « most participants of the riots come from the working community », which supports the stay of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.

« It is a demographic group that feels abandoned by political and social forces, » he added. « A restless community, especially if it is predominantly young people, is easily angry and easy to mobilize into the streets. This problem will not just disappear, » he warned.

Student Lee Stewart described the protests as « a little extreme », but at the same time necessary « to defend our people ».

« We feel that the police do nothing to stop what is happening to those poor girls, » said 18-year-old Stewart from the community, which has long been dissatisfied with political development and immigration.