(AP/ DCNF/TJV) A man was detained by Irish police after allegedly stabbing numerous people outside a Dublin primary school, leading to an uproar in the streets, according to multiple reports and video footage.
The People of Ireland Have Started Burning Down Immigration Centers/Busses After 5 People (Including 3 Children) Were Badly Injured in Yet Another Knife Attack by a muslim Immigrant ⚠️ 1 Child and Woman critical.
The Algerian immigrant is in custody but authorities claim he is… pic.twitter.com/j3LYYI3XiH
— Megh Updates 🚨™ (@MeghUpdates) November 24, 2023
Violent clashes broke out in central Dublin on Thursday evening, with vehicles torched and riot police attacked, after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack earlier in the day that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized.
🚨#BREAKING: The People of Ireland Have Started Burning Down Immigration Centers/Busses After 5 People (Including 3 Children) Were Badly Injured in Yet Another Knife Attack by a Muslim Immigrant ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/0nlmQSIbhl
— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) November 23, 2023
Reports flooded social media showing citizens attacking migrant centers, and migrants looting stores as a result of the terrorist attack. Irish leadership is notoriously left wing and in recent years have welcomed endless streams of Islamic migrants to their nation.
JUST IN: Another hotel on fire in Dublin, Ireland… Citizens set fire to the Holiday Inn that is used to house immigrants following the violent stabbing of three children..pic.twitter.com/51Y7Gj4dXC
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) November 24, 2023
Police said the girl was receiving emergency medical treatment in a Dublin hospital following the attack outside a school. Soon after that announcement, at least 100 people took to the streets, some armed with metal bars and covering their faces.
Ireland: 🇮🇪
Dublin is burning tonight.
Police cars and public buses have been lit on fire.
This was from anger boiling over following a mass stabbing attack that included three children by an immigrant from Algeria.
The IRISH PEOPLE have rightfully so HAD ENOUGH. pic.twitter.com/kZyH3YEAOt
— Epstein’s Sheet. 🧻 (@meantweeting1) November 24, 2023
Police said over 400 officers including many in riot gear, were deployed in Dublin city center to contain the unrest, which they said was “caused by a small group of thugs.” A police cordon was also set up around the Irish Parliament building, Leinster House, and officers from the Mounted Support Unit were in nearby Grafton Street.
Angry scenes in Dublin tonight as news breaks that an Algerian immigrant is responsible for the mass stabbing attack earlier today. #IrelandisFull pic.twitter.com/PXUqReRQXL
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) November 23, 2023
The incident happened around 1:30 p.m., according to The Guardian. A five-year-old girl, a man in his 50s, and a woman in her 30s sustained serious injuries. A five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl are being treated for less serious injuries, per the outlet. The boy has been discharged from the hospital.
Immigrants in Ireland are Now Looting Stores, Yet the Irish Gov’t Blames “Far Right Loonigans” – @morningireland #migrantcrisis #Ireland #Algeria https://t.co/He0bMj8JIY
— The Jewish Voice (@JewishVoice) November 24, 2023
Police said they detained a man in his 50s as a “person of interest,” the outlet reported. Irish outlet Gript reported the suspect is “understood at this stage by Gardai to be an Algerian national,” according to a Tweet. Garda commissioner Drew Harris declined to reveal the suspect’s identity, stating the protests were a result of a “hooligan faction driven by far right ideology,” the Irish Examiner reported.
Quite funny what’s happening in Ireland 🇮🇪
On one hand it is by far the most antisemitic and pro-Hamas country in Europe
On the other hand, they are burning cars and calling for deportation of the same Jihadists they love so much
Funny country…
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) November 23, 2023
The stabbing reportedly happened as children were coming out of school. Bystanders disarmed the man and held him on the ground, kicking him, witness Siobhan Kearney told RTÉ, The Guardian noted.
The People of Ireland Have Started Burning Down Immigration Centers/Busses After 5 People (Including 3 Children) Were Badly Injured in Yet Another Knife Attack by a muslim Immigrant ⚠️ 1 Child and Woman critical.
The Algerian immigrant is in custody but authorities claim he is… pic.twitter.com/j3LYYI3XiH
— Megh Updates 🚨™ (@MeghUpdates) November 24, 2023
A wake up call for Ireland, the rest of Europe, and the USA. #Algerian, stabbing attack.#Ireland #Dublin #DublinRiots #Europe #riot #stabbing https://t.co/ohQHmk8wMx
— The Jewish Voice (@JewishVoice) November 23, 2023
“People were trying to attack the man. So me and an American lady formed a ring around him saying we’d wait on the garda,” Kearney told the outlet. “Two children and the woman were taken back into the school where they were coming from. It was absolutely bedlam.”
Videos on Twitter show people taking to the streets of Dublin.
Multiple Garda cars and a bus were set on fire at the protests, according to videos.
Dublin bus alight. pic.twitter.com/m7rjhN41UT
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) November 23, 2023
The incident is being treated as a “standalone” rather than a “terror-related” incident, Superintendent Liam Geraghty said at a press conference.
A source who witnessed the rioting in Dublin, Ireland sent this to me. He said many Irish people have had enough of violence, sex crimes and housing issues caused by migrants, and the revelation that an immigrant suspect allegedly was responsible for the mass stabbing attack on… pic.twitter.com/WhBmdWXXdM
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 24, 2023
Helen McEntee, the justice minister, said the “horrific attack” has “shocked us all,” amid calls for her resignation. McEntee released a statement about the protests on Twitter.
“The scenes we are witnessing this evening in our city centre cannot and will not be tolerated,” she said. “A thuggish and manipulative element must not be allowed use an appalling tragedy to wreak havoc.”