Europe has been bnsy this week on the anti-immigration front. Yesterday, Ireland’s prime minister condemned anti-immigrant protesters who rampaged through Dublin after a stabbing of children rumored to have been committed by an immigrant.
“Police arrested 34 people after Thursday night’s rioting when up to 500 people looted shops, set fire to vehicles and threw rocks at crowd control officers equipped with helmets and shields. The violence began after rumors circulated that a foreign national was responsible for the attack outside a Dublin school on Thursday afternoon. Authorities haven’t disclosed the suspect’s nationality.”
According to the Associated Press, “Thursday’s unrest came amid rising tensions over immigration in Ireland that mirror trends in other parts of Europe. Earlier this year, people carrying signs reading `Ireland is full’ demonstrated in Dublin, and protesters blockaded a hotel housing asylum-seekers in County Clare on the west coast. . . .
Commissioner Drew Harris, head of Ireland’s national police force, described those who took part in Thursday’s unrest as a `complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology.’”
KJ
UPDATE (11/26):
NPR report on the riot and the stabbing that led to the riot..