Violent protests in Dublin after woman and children injured in knife attack

[riversedge]

Source: the guardian


Violent protests in Dublin after woman and children injured in knife attack

Crowd chanting anti-immigrant slogans clashes with police hours after stabbing incident outside school

Thu 23 Nov 2023 15.31 EST
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Police detained a man in his 50s, who was also being treated for injuries, and said they were not seeking other suspects.

Authorities did not identify the man but anti-immigrant groups said he was a foreigner and gathered near the scene of the attack in Parnell Square, in the north of Ireland’s capital.

Sections of the crowd clashed with police, reportedly injuring several officers. Authorities suspended bus and tram services in parts of Dublin and called for calm.

The stabbing incident happened at about 1.30pm on Thursday outside Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire, a school at Parnell Square East, a bustling part of Dublin.

Police said a five-year-old girl, a woman in her 30s and a man in his 50s sustained serious injuries. The girl was receiving emergency medical treatment. A five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl were treated for less severe injuries. The boy was discharged from hospital...............................

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/23/dublin-knife-attack-children-stabbing-ireland-parnell-square

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BREAKING:

Major riots are taking place in Dublin in response to a mass-stabbing earlier today.

An Algerian man entered a school and stabbed 1 women and 3 young children.

2 of them are in serious condition.

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[riversedge]

1. Another police car set a blaze in Dublin City Centre after woman & children were stabbed...........

A police vehicle has been torched and set on fire in Dublin, Ireland tonight.

Hundreds of local Irish men have taken to the streets in anger after a man, reported to be an Algerian migrant, stabbed 5 people including 3 children.

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Another police car set a blaze in Dublin City Centre after woman & children were stabbed.
#IrelandBelongsToTheIrish #Ireland #Dublin #ExitUNRefugeeConvention
#NHPUK #Algerian #EnoughIsEnough

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[riversedge]

2. Chaotic scenes in Dublin tonight. People across the UK support our neighbours fighting back against their replacement an

Chaotic scenes in Dublin tonight.
People across the UK support our neighbours fighting back against their replacement and the abuse of their children.
#IrelandBelongsToTheIrish
#Ireland

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[riversedge]

8. Ireland's reaction to the far-right racists rioting in Dublin tonight..............

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[Emrys]

12. I'm surprised I can see Ashlea Simon's tweets embedded on DU because I have her blocked on Twitter.

I don't remember doing it, but I see it must have been for good reason.

She's a social media wannabe shitstirrer who identifies as "Britain First", a party/hate group of the UK neo-fascist fringe. Ironically, "Britain First" was what deranged far-right white supremacist murderer Thomas Mair shouted as he shot MP Jo Cox in the head three times with a sawn-off hunting rifle before stabbing her 15 times in 2016.

Groups like that always latch onto singular atrocities to stir up unrest after crimes such as this to further their agendas.

[riversedge]

3. An immigration centre in Dublin has been set alight tonight. The Irish aren't f*cking about......

An immigration centre in Dublin has been set alight tonight.
The Irish aren’t f*cking about.
#Ireland
#IrelandBelongsToTheIrish

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[riversedge]

7. Holiday Inn Express housing migrants is set alight tonight.

Holiday Inn Express housing migrants is set alight tonight.
Does this accommodation actually house migrants?
The government has lit a fire it can’t put out.
#Ireland

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[riversedge]

9. The government is using the hotel to house asylum seekers.

🇮🇪 | BREAKING #DUBLINRIOTS – Breaking: The Holiday Inn Express Hotel in Dublin on fire.

The government is using the hotel to house asylum seekers.

Reports that Irish people hunting down immigrants in Dublin,
- at least 3 injured.

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[riversedge]

4. The tram is alight in Dublin tonight. It's absolute chaos! Ireland for the Irish.

The tram is alight in Dublin tonight.
It’s absolute chaos!
Ireland for the Irish.
#IrelandBelongsToTheIrish
#Ireland

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[riversedge]

5. Irish Government has declared war on its citizens and is sending a huge number of military reinforcements to

‼️ BOMBSHELL – The Irish Government has declared war on its citizens and is sending a huge number of military reinforcements to Dublin amid continued riots in the city.

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[riversedge]

6. @emptywheel One day after claiming a flying Bentley was a terrorist attack, Benny is doing PR for far right mobsters des

I do not know who/what is Elmo.




@emptywheel
One day after claiming a flying Bentley was a terrorist attack, Benny is doing PR for far right mobsters destroying private property.

And Elmo is paying him to do so.

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[area51]

13. I believe Elmo is a reference to Elon Musk. n/t

[Skittles]

10. this vigilante behavior is disgusting

one person does not represent all immigrants, unless you are RACIST

[IcyPeas]

11. Just saw this on BBC news.

The Garda they interviewed said its a lunatic hooligan faction driven by right wing ideology...

[dflprincess]

14. A certain amount of sad irony here

when one considers how the Irish were often treated when they were the immigrants.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. They look and act more like white nationalists than mere protesters.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. There's no doubt at all that they're white nationalists

as are Ashlea Simon and "National Housing Party U.K." (who want the UK to withdraw from the UN Refugee Convention).

I wouldn't even take the claim that the man is "Algerian" as likely to be true. There's nothing to "protest" about, really - one criminal, foreign or not, was swiftly taken into custody.

[riversedge]

17. The scenes on O'Connell St this morning at 8am. Dublin City Council & local businesses work tirelessly to clean up after

The scenes on O’Connell St this morning at 8am. Dublin City Council & local businesses work tirelessly to clean up after the mayhem that unfolded in Ireland’s most historic street.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that the rioters in Dublin brought “shame on Ireland” #dublinriots

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[riversedge]

18. NEW: The suspect in the stabbing in Ireland is a naturalized citizen who has lived in the country FOR 20 YEARS.

NEW: The suspect in the stabbing in Ireland is a naturalized citizen who has lived in the country FOR 20 YEARS.

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[riversedge]

19. And the man who tackled the suspect was a Brazilian immigrant. We should treat immigrants as we'd want our own diaspora

And the man who tackled the suspect was a Brazilian immigrant.
We should treat immigrants as we'd want our own diaspora to be treated. During the Great Hunger, >1 million Irish were refugees (>1 million died).
Above all other nations, we have reason to be generous + hospitable.

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[lonely bird]

21. Which underscores something interesting

In the U.S. it used to be that once you became a citizen you were an American whereas in Europe even if you became a citizen of a particular country you were never looked at as being a Frenchman or a German or whatever. They were xenophobic as hell. Now that attitude has been encouraged here and inflamed even more there.

Humans, yeesh.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Irish police chief warns of further disruption by far right after Dublin riot

The cleanup began as fresh details emerged of the stabbing attack outside a school that left three children and a carer injured, two of them critically, and the suspect, reportedly a naturalised Irish citizen in his 50s, in custody and requiring medical treatment.

Claims that the suspect was a foreigner spread online soon after the attack, which happened at about 1.30pm on Thursday, and drew a crowd to the scene at Parnell Square in the north inner city, leading to a riot in which 13 shops were looted, a tram and two buses torched, 11 police vehicles damaged, several officers injured – one seriously – and 34 people arrested.
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The creche worker, who has not been named, and a 43-year-old Brazilian Deliveroo driver, Caio Benicio, were hailed as heroes for intervening. “At first I thought it was a fight with a man and a woman. A normal fight like, you know, and I slowed down my motorcycle to see more closely what’s happening,” he told RTÉ. The woman was trying to pull a girl away, he said.
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Benicio took off his helmet and used it as a weapon, he said. “Just hit him in the head with all power I have. And he fell down. And I hit him and then come other people and start to kick him.” Benicio lamented the ensuing riot. “There are protests against immigrants and I am immigrant and I was there, right there to protect Irish people.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/24/dublin-rioters-could-face-jail-helen-mcentee-justice-minister-says

Full RTA interview: https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2023/1124/1418259-deliveroo-driver/

[chouchou]

22. I see "Stupid Shit" travels around the world, via ignorance.

I must say (and be trashed) ..ar least, it wasn't an assault rifle.

[paleotn]

23. That's a logical and correct statement.

Imagine if the guy had access to an AR-15 knock off. Oh, wait! He didn't. They actually have rational firearms laws in the Republic.

[chouchou]

24. Thank you. I keep forgetting I'm not on the weird-forum, where I used to post.

[paleotn]

25. Everybody's got them it seems.

Some more than others. I doubt this will fly in Ireland. They're generally not nuts like 40% of Americans.

[Think. Again.]

26. Let's hope our own...

...rightwing terror groups don't get emboldened by their Irish counterparts.