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Some 63 police officers have been injured in what has been called a “ week of shame ” in Northern Ireland. Disorder started in Ballymena on Monday after an alleged sexual assault of a girl in the Co Antrim town at the weekend, and continued throughout the week.
Rioters clashed with police in Ballymena, and masked groups set fire to a recreation center in Larne, where families had been given temporary shelter.
Unrest has erupted in the Northern Irish town after the alleged sexual assault of a local girl by two 'Romanian' teenagers
After racist violence erupted there on Monday, before spreading to other parts of Northern Ireland in four nights of disturbances, many Ballymena homes are also displaying yellow posters with “LOCALS LIVE HERE”.
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Man caught throwing stones amid protest disorder in Ballymena, IrelandOn June 11, 2025, in Ballymena, Antrim, Ireland, @jaitimperley shared a video showing a man throwing large stones amid a riot. In the video, police officers are seen gathered near a protest scene when a man holding two heavy stones suddenly hurls them toward the police line.
About 50 households in Northern Ireland have received housing assistance since disorder broke out in Ballymena this week, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) has said.
Rioting which injured 22 officers in Portadown was "entirely unacceptable" and undermined the aims of peaceful protestors to have “legitimate” concerns about illegal immigration highlighted, the local MP has said.
Police in Northern Ireland say 17 officers were injured during a second night of anti-immigrant violence in the town of Ballymena.
Disorder has broken out in Northern Ireland for the third successive night, after police said people are "waking up with genuine fear for their lives" following two nights of violence in Ballymena and other areas.
Rioters livestreamed themselves burning down a house on TikTok during a second night of racially motivated disorder in Northern Ireland.
The research, conducted over the last 72 hours, uncovered scores of comments and posts on the platform supporting racist violence and the firebombing of homes in Ballymena
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