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Disorder in Ballymena earlier this month (Photo by Kevin Scott)<\/p>\n
As of Sunday, the total number of people arrested in relation to recent rioting in Northern Ireland is now 36.<\/p>\n
Officers from the PSNI\u2019s Public Order Enquiry Team investigating the disorder have also charged a 26-year-old man to court.<\/p>\n
He has been charged with riot and is due to appear before Coleraine Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday (June 23).<\/p>\n
As is usual procedure, all charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.<\/p>\n
Two men, also arrested on Friday, have further been charged; a 42-year-old man arrested for intentionally encouraging or assisting riot and a 54-year-old man charged with riot.<\/p>\n
Both appeared before Ballymena Magistrates\u2019 Court on Saturday (June 21). <\/p>\n
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Disorder in Ballymena earlier this month (Photo by Kevin Scott)<\/p>\n
PSNI chief warns rioters \u2018we will arrest you\u2019<\/p>\n
The unrest began on Monday, June 9, in Ballymena. <\/p>\n
That night, what started as a vigil for a teenage girl quickly escalated into riots targeting immigrant communities, triggered by the court appearance of two 14-year-old Romanian-speaking boys charged with attempted rape.<\/p>\n
Violent scenes unfolded over four consecutive nights across multiple towns: Ballymena, Portadown, Larne, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Derry, and east Belfast.<\/p>\n
Rioters targeted immigrant homes and businesses, setting fires and launching petrol bombs, bricks, fireworks, and missiles.<\/p>\n
Over 64 officers were injured across Northern Ireland, including 41 in Ballymena and 23 in Portadown.<\/p>\n
This unrest forms part of a broader rise in racially motivated hate crimes, which have surged to their highest levels in Northern Ireland since 2004 \u2013 1,188 incidents were recorded from April 2024 to March 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disorder in Ballymena earlier this month (Photo by Kevin Scott) As of Sunday, the total number of people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,5825,1144,1610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-205616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-niamh-campbell","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114728164785974784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205616","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=205616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}