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Northern Ireland: calls for calm after a demonstration that degenerates

2021-04-03T14:55:33.796Z


The British Minister for Northern Ireland and the Northern Irish police called for calm on Saturday April 3, the day after a demonstration that degenerated in a loyalist district of Belfast. Read also: Northern Ireland rekindles tension between London and Brussels Eight police officers were injured on Friday evening 2 after being targeted, in the district of Sandy Row, in the south of the northe


The British Minister for Northern Ireland and the Northern Irish police called for calm on Saturday April 3, the day after a demonstration that degenerated in a loyalist district of Belfast.

Read also: Northern Ireland rekindles tension between London and Brussels

Eight police officers were injured on Friday evening 2 after being targeted, in the district of Sandy Row, in the south of the northern Irish capital, by throwing manhole covers, bricks and incendiary devices, Irish police said in a statement.

Seven people were arrested on the spot, media citing up to 200 loyalist protesters, mostly young people.

"

I call on all those involved to immediately cease this distressing behavior

," Northern Ireland police official Simon Walls said in the statement.

"

Local communities do not want to go back in time,

" he added, referring to three decades of unrest in the British province.

"

They deserve to live in safe and peaceful neighborhoods

."

The Minister in charge of Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis, also condemned the violence, "

totally unacceptable

".

Violence is never the answer.

It has no place in society,

"he added on Twitter,"

fully

"

supporting

the police call for calm.

The incidents come against a backdrop of growing discontent in Northern Ireland over the consequences of Brexit, fully implemented since January 1.

The Unionists, supporters of maintaining in the United Kingdom, reject the protocol negotiated between London and Brussels which introduces controls on goods arriving in Northern Ireland from Great Britain.

This protocol is intended to prevent the return of a border between the British province and the Republic of Ireland (member of the EU) which would risk weakening the peace concluded in 1998.

Tensions have also increased this week following a controversial decision not to prosecute 24 members of Sinn Fein, a party advocating reunification with Ireland, for their participation in the funeral of a former figurehead of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) despite restrictions in place against coronavirus.

Unionists demanded the resignation of Republican Deputy Prime Minister Michelle O'Neill, who was among the 1,800 people, according to media, who came to pay a final tribute to Bobby Storey in June 2020.

Source: lefigaro

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