Serious riots in Dublin and 30 arrested in a violent anti-immigration protest after the alleged rape of a girl

Dublin has been alive for three days serious disturbances originated by a anti-immigration protest in front of a hotel where several people are staying asylum seekers and that have already caused around thirty arrests.

The spark jumped this Monday when a 26-year-old man was accused of raping a 10-year-old girl in the vicinity of this hotel. Several sources indicate that the aggressor is a foreigneralthough the authorities They have not confirmed it.

Although on Monday the protest was peaceful, as the days went by violence reached the streets of the Irish capital, forcing the police to carry out charges against the protesters.

Various groups of hooded men They set fire to a police car, They set up barricades, They destroyed street furniture and threw stones and sticks at the policeplus fireworks.

At least two police officers have been injured. One of them received this Wednesday night a bottle on the head and the other a strong blow on the shoulder.

The Minister of Justice, Interior and Migration, Jim O’Callaghan, condemned what he called “brutal violence” and announced that “there will be more arrests.” In the last few hours, 23 people have been arrested, adding to the six who were detained between Monday and Tuesday.

He also rated as “extremely serious” the alleged assault against the minorwho was under the guardianship of the State.

The greatest violence occurred late Wednesday. Between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., hundreds of protesters again confronted about 40 uniformed officers, who had to be urgently replaced by public order units, whose members carried shields and additional body protection, after the officers at the original cordon were attacked with debris, stones and fireworks.

Some protesters continued to throw masonry, flares, glass bottles and wooden planks at officers. Vandalism also occurred in other parts of Dublin.

The protest originated after some Irish media claimed that the alleged perpetrator of the sexual assault suffered by a 10-year-old Irish girl He is an African asylum seeker. At the moment, there is no official confirmation.

Ireland and the United Kingdom have been experiencing an increase in anti-immigrant sentiment for months, with sometimes violent protests against places that house asylum seekers, as has been the case in Dublin, which already experienced a similar situation weeks ago.