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Police are seeking to identify 6 individuals in connection with disorder and attacks on officers since last Monday(Image: PSNI)<\/p>\n
Police have released new images tonight of six people they want to speak to in connection with the ongoing investigation into disorder and attacks on officers over the past week.<\/p>\n
A PSNI<\/a> spokesperson said on Tuesday evening: “Can you identify the following individuals? Police would like to speak with these persons, in connection with our ongoing investigation into a number of incidents of disorder and attacks on police officers since Monday, 9th June 2025 in the Ballymena<\/a> area.<\/p>\n “We are asking these individuals to come forward to police, or anyone who can assist in identifying these individuals should contact us on 101, or directly on 02890922815.”<\/p>\n READ MORE: Northern Ireland disorder: PSNI make 31 arrests to date<\/a>READ MORE: Ballymena riots: Children in the same class attacking the homes of fellow pupils says minister<\/a><\/p>\n Earlier on Tuesday, it was confirmed that more than 30 people have been arrested<\/a> by police investigating the recent disorder in Northern Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of those arrested, 23 people \u2013 including a 13-year-old girl and her mother \u2013 have been charged in connection with the violent scenes last week.<\/p>\n The disorder started in Ballymena<\/a> last Monday after an alleged sexual assault of a girl in the town last weekend. Two 14-year-old boys, who spoke to a court through a Romanian interpreter, have been charged with attempted rape.<\/p>\n A peaceful protest last Monday evening about the alleged assault was followed by attacks on police and properties housing ethnic minorities. The PSNI described the scenes as \u201cracist thuggery\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n The disturbances in the Co Antrim<\/a> town continued for several nights and spread to other areas of Northern Ireland including Portadown<\/a>, Larne<\/a>, Belfast, Carrickfergus, Londonderry and Coleraine.<\/p>\n Police said some largely peaceful protests took place on the Shankill Road and Shore Road in west and north Belfast, and in Clonavon Terrace and Waveney Road in Ballymena on Monday night.<\/p>\n In a statement on Tuesday, Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said police are continuing to review evidence gathered during disorder, adding that more arrests are likely.<\/p>\n \u201cRecent days have been calmer. However, this does not mean our investigations into those responsible for the racially-motivated attacks will lose momentum,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are continuing to review our evidence gathered over the days of disorder and are robustly investigating the disorder. We will be making more arrests and delivering justice to those responsible for these racially-motivated attacks and associated posts on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cOur heightened presence in towns and cities and engagement will continue as we work to keep people<\/a> safe. Everyone deserves to feel safe on our streets.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, just as we will seek justice for women and girls who report heinous crimes to us, we will also seek justice for local innocent families who are being targeted by criminality fuelled by hate. We will continue to robustly investigate the disorder over the last number of days but do not want to see any more young people criminalised by being caught up in this activity.\u201d<\/p>\n Photos and footage, including CCTV, mobile phone or dashcam footage, can be shared with police through the Major Incident Public Portal at https:\/\/mipp.police.uk\/operation\/PSNI25U11-PO1<\/a>.<\/p>\n A report can also be submitted online using the non-emergency reporting form via http:\/\/www.psni.police.uk\/makeareport\/<\/a> or you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at http:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage<\/strong> here<\/a> <\/strong>and<\/strong> sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> <\/strong>here.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s part of the ongoing investigation into incidents of disorder and attacks on police officers over the past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[958,78922,13,378,12,1618,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-193377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ballymena","9":"tag-co-antrim","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-in-the-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-psni","14":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114702283310481149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193377","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=193377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Police](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750217834_161_1_photo-collage.png\")
Police are seeking to identify 6 individuals in connection with disorder and attacks on officers since last Monday(Image: PSNI)<\/p>\n