I don’t remember a time when I’ve walked in Dublin City where I felt uneasy about walking near refugees or immigrants. However, I have always felt uneasy when lads on scooters and stolen bikes wearing tech fleeces and balaclavas with knives in their pockets stand in groups on O’Connel street causing hassle.
Might have something to do with the fact they’re the issue and the ones making Dublin City a shite place to live in.
>Last week there were 582 recently arrived asylum seekers without State provided accommodation. The Government stopped offering accommodation to newly arrived adult asylum seekers without children on 24 January, citing a nationwide shortage, the Dept has said.
That is absolute insanity. What are they thinking?
Oh wow one protester arrested with a minor charge.
There was venom in people last night, direct threats and violence narrowly avoided because counter protesters tried not to engage. People were followed and harassed as they tried to walk away with the Gardaí doing little to stop it.
The Garda wall blocking the site must have dismantled as soon as counter protesters were out of sight because it was ablaze within the hour
580 recently arrived protection applicants deposited onto the streets? at what stage is a stop put to new applicants? that isn’t protecting anyone like, even if you disregard these nutters attacking them, living on the streets is inherently unhealthy, unhygienic and dangerous.
The situation is only going to get worse unless the government either pulls (non existent) accomodation out of a hat or puts a stay on new applications for protection. Doing nothing (governments preferred option so far) is literally now fanning the flames.
Destroying the only shelter people have is now a “minor public order offence” for transparency I am assuming what side the offender was on..
I spend a lot of time in this area.
There have been a number of tents around Mount St for weeks. Some had signage complaining of the government’s actions. I had not see or heard of any negative interactions around this ever growing line of tents.
The incidents from the last few days centre around Andrews Court, a lane off Sandwith Street Upper. This particular “shelter” which was dismantled by a group of lads I’d be crossing the street to avoid, and subsequently partially burnt, only appeared in the last week or two. It noticeably had a few flags and a *lot* more signage, such as “No NATO = NO WARS, (which is straight out of Russia’s messaging). Other signs read “Public buildings land Public Use”, “Resist Against Racist Agression” “4 day working week” and the letters RHL (Revolutionary Housing League) were painted on a fence surrounding the long vacant derelict flats.
Forgive my cynicism, but I don’t think refugees arriving here living on the street formed the RHL and erected all the signs. I have no doubt the RHL have good intentions in helping these vulnerable people, but I think putting up what can be considered “far-left” signage, creating a mini “CHOP/CHAZ” was always going to get a reaction from those on the far right. RHL could have quietly just broke into derelict buildings (I don’t agree with this, but they’ve said they’ve since done this) to house people without getting their flags on show.
Rough timeline from tweets still up:
4/5 RHL call for action against Gardai attempting to clear the lane off Sandwith
9/5 RHL report “anti social elements”
10/5 Brief clip of the camp posted
10/5 Clip of arguments with man from the site and Irish branding him a paedo and rapist
11/5 RHL calls for “antifascists” to gather at the camp at 7pm to face far right aggressors and thugs.
Following this the clip of the altercation with the refugee swinging a pole at a group and getting a bike thrown at him quickly thereafter surfaces. Gardai intervened, one man is lead away from the camp where a samurai sword and large knife were found.
11/5 SP calls for people to protect the camp
12/5 PBP also put out a call for people to go to the camp for 7pm
I think everything after this point was fairly well documented.
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Protest? It was an attack
I don’t remember a time when I’ve walked in Dublin City where I felt uneasy about walking near refugees or immigrants. However, I have always felt uneasy when lads on scooters and stolen bikes wearing tech fleeces and balaclavas with knives in their pockets stand in groups on O’Connel street causing hassle.
Might have something to do with the fact they’re the issue and the ones making Dublin City a shite place to live in.
>Last week there were 582 recently arrived asylum seekers without State provided accommodation. The Government stopped offering accommodation to newly arrived adult asylum seekers without children on 24 January, citing a nationwide shortage, the Dept has said.
That is absolute insanity. What are they thinking?
Oh wow one protester arrested with a minor charge.
There was venom in people last night, direct threats and violence narrowly avoided because counter protesters tried not to engage. People were followed and harassed as they tried to walk away with the Gardaí doing little to stop it.
The Garda wall blocking the site must have dismantled as soon as counter protesters were out of sight because it was ablaze within the hour
580 recently arrived protection applicants deposited onto the streets? at what stage is a stop put to new applicants? that isn’t protecting anyone like, even if you disregard these nutters attacking them, living on the streets is inherently unhealthy, unhygienic and dangerous.
The situation is only going to get worse unless the government either pulls (non existent) accomodation out of a hat or puts a stay on new applications for protection. Doing nothing (governments preferred option so far) is literally now fanning the flames.
Destroying the only shelter people have is now a “minor public order offence” for transparency I am assuming what side the offender was on..
I spend a lot of time in this area.
There have been a number of tents around Mount St for weeks. Some had signage complaining of the government’s actions. I had not see or heard of any negative interactions around this ever growing line of tents.
The incidents from the last few days centre around Andrews Court, a lane off Sandwith Street Upper. This particular “shelter” which was dismantled by a group of lads I’d be crossing the street to avoid, and subsequently partially burnt, only appeared in the last week or two. It noticeably had a few flags and a *lot* more signage, such as “No NATO = NO WARS, (which is straight out of Russia’s messaging). Other signs read “Public buildings land Public Use”, “Resist Against Racist Agression” “4 day working week” and the letters RHL (Revolutionary Housing League) were painted on a fence surrounding the long vacant derelict flats.
Forgive my cynicism, but I don’t think refugees arriving here living on the street formed the RHL and erected all the signs. I have no doubt the RHL have good intentions in helping these vulnerable people, but I think putting up what can be considered “far-left” signage, creating a mini “CHOP/CHAZ” was always going to get a reaction from those on the far right. RHL could have quietly just broke into derelict buildings (I don’t agree with this, but they’ve said they’ve since done this) to house people without getting their flags on show.
Rough timeline from tweets still up:
4/5 RHL call for action against Gardai attempting to clear the lane off Sandwith
9/5 RHL report “anti social elements”
10/5 Brief clip of the camp posted
10/5 Clip of arguments with man from the site and Irish branding him a paedo and rapist
11/5 RHL calls for “antifascists” to gather at the camp at 7pm to face far right aggressors and thugs.
Following this the clip of the altercation with the refugee swinging a pole at a group and getting a bike thrown at him quickly thereafter surfaces. Gardai intervened, one man is lead away from the camp where a samurai sword and large knife were found.
11/5 SP calls for people to protect the camp
12/5 PBP also put out a call for people to go to the camp for 7pm
I think everything after this point was fairly well documented.