{"id":171674,"date":"2025-06-10T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171674\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:09:09","slug":"public-disorder-breaks-out-in-northern-ireland-town-ballymena-after-alleged-sexual-assault-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171674\/","title":{"rendered":"Public disorder breaks out in Northern Ireland town Ballymena after alleged sexual assault | Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Public disorder broke out in Ballymena in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/northernireland\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Ireland<\/a>, with police saying a number of missiles had been thrown towards officers after crowds gathered near the site of an alleged sexual assault in the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The unrest follows a protest in the area, about 30 minutes\u2019s drive from the capital city of Belfast, earlier on Monday evening, the police statement said, adding damage had been reported to a number of properties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/latest-news\/police-dealing-disorder-ballymena-appeal-calm\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police advised motorists and pedestrians<\/a> to avoid the Clonavon Road area and said they would remain on the scene to monitor the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cWe are urging everyone to remain calm and to act responsibly,\u201d said <br \/>chief superintendent Sue Steen. \u201cViolence and disorder will only place people at greater risk. Our priority is to keep the community safe, and I would appeal to everyone to work with us to bring calm to the area as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Public disorder in Ballymena town centre. Photograph: Christopher Shaw\/The Guardian<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Local media reported people with their faces masked were seen throwing masonry and a police car had two of its windows smashed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Protesters gathered after two boys appeared in court after an alleged serious sexual in Clonavon Road, media reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/latest-news\/two-teenage-boys-charged-connection-serious-sexual-assault-ballymena\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police announced<\/a> that detectives investigating a serious sexual assault on a teenage girl in the Clonavon Terrace area of Ballymena had charged two teenage boys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">With Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public disorder broke out in Ballymena in Northern Ireland, with police saying a number of missiles had been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-171674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114656402769090460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}