Hundreds of Garda officers are braced outside an asylum seeker hotel in Dublin on Wednesday evening (October 22) ahead of further protests. It is set to be the third night in a row a protest has been held outside the Citywest Hotel, in Saggart, after an alleged sexual assault on a girl in the vicinity in the early hours of Monday morning.
Six people were arrested after a protest turned violent on Tuesday evening. A man, 26, has been charged with sexually assaulting the 10-year-old girl and has deferred applying for bail.
On Tuesday, protesters were displaying Irish flags, chanting anti-immigration slogans and throwing missiles. Garda cordons sustained attacks including physical violence, bricks thrown and fireworks discharged at gardai, as well as the burning of a Garda van.
There were also attempts to charge the Garda line with horse-drawn sulky carts. Meanwhile, a Garda helicopter overhead was targeted with lasers.
Monday's protest passed without any significant disruption or incident. Several thousand people had gathered close to the Citywest hotel, Irish Broadcaster RTÉ reported.
Irish premier Micheal Martin condemned the scenes of violence, stating there could be "no justification" for attacks on gardai. Members of the Garda public order unit were deployed during the disturbances.
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