{"id":347137,"date":"2025-08-15T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347137\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:04:14","slug":"migrant-patrols-are-just-the-latest-incarnation-of-a-long-and-less-than-edifying-history-of-vigilantism-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347137\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Migrant patrols\u2019 are just the latest incarnation of a long and less than edifying history of vigilantism in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Groups roaming the streets and challenging those who look different than they do have been roundly criticised but like others before them they claim to be protecting communities\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scene of disorder in Ballymena in June after violence broke out following the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in the town\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cb5caaa6-c7e3-447a-9b51-b8c54a6aa7c4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Scene of disorder in Ballymena in June after violence broke out following the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in the town<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The emergence of \u2018vigilante patrol\u2019 groups targeting ethnic minorities and the homeless has drawn criticism from politicians, human rights groups and others in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But so-called vigilantism is by no means a new phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Groups roaming the streets and challenging those who look different than they do have been roundly criticised but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6571,22306,1144,41386,50425,16,15,58871,6569],"class_list":{"0":"post-347137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-andrew-madden","9":"tag-ira","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-queens-university","12":"tag-uda","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-university-of-ulster","16":"tag-uvf"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115034106440218093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347137","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=347137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}