Northern Ireland lived for the third consecutive nights of tension and public disorder on Wednesday, with an alleged fire in a leisure center in the city of Larne after young masks break down windows.
A Reuters He could not immediately check the authenticity of videos and photos on social networks showing what happened.
Hundreds of masked protesters attacked police and burned down 33 kilometers west of Ballymena during the previous two nights, in which police ranked “racist violence.” Thirty -two police officers were injured.
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Shock police and armored vans blocked Roads in Ballymena on Wednesday night, while a crowd of about 200 people watched. Two stones were thrown into a police vehicle and one person kicked the hood of a police van, a witness told Reuters.
Police vans slowly advanced toward the crowd, which was warned by a speaker to disperse immediately, and that the force was “about to be used against violent individuals.”
Violence initially broke out after two 14 -year -olds were arrested, accused of serious sexual assault against a teenager in Ballymena, located 45 kilometers from Belfast.
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The accusations were read in court by a Romanian interpreter to the boys, who denied the prosecution through his lawyer, the lawyer said BBC. Police are investigating the damage to the property in Ballymena as racial hate crimes.
