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Right-Wing Riots Erupt in Dublin After Stabbing Attack<!-- wp:html --><p>Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters</p> <p>DUBLIN—Right-wing rioters turned a usually bustling district of central <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/dublin">Dublin</a> into a war zone Thursday night, after unconfirmed speculation that a foreign national was responsible for <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-children-and-woman-stabbed-in-dublin-knife-attack">a horrific stabbing</a> outside a school which hospitalized three children under the age of 7 and a woman in her 30s who protected them.</p> <p>One of the city’s main shopping thoroughfares, O’Connell Street, which should have been packed with late-night Christmas shoppers, became a scene of terror after anti-immigration protesters torched busses and police cars, smashed windows of shops and looted them and allegedly beat non-white people. </p> <p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/least-three-children-taken-hospital-after-dublin-stabbing-rte-2023-11-23/">Reuters reported</a> that police would not comment on the nationality of the suspect. A man in his late 40s, he was disarmed and detained by passers-by, has also been taken for treatment for serious self-inflicted injuries. <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/11/23/violence-erupts-in-dublin-city-after-stabbing-attack-targeting-young-children/">The <em>Irish Times</em> reported</a> that the chief suspect was a naturalized Irish citizen, who has lived in Ireland for 20 years.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-riots-erupt-in-dublin-after-stabbing-attack">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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DUBLIN—Right-wing rioters turned a usually bustling district of central Dublin into a war zone Thursday night, after unconfirmed speculation that a foreign national was responsible for a horrific stabbing outside a school which hospitalized three children under the age of 7 and a woman in her 30s who protected them.

One of the city’s main shopping thoroughfares, O’Connell Street, which should have been packed with late-night Christmas shoppers, became a scene of terror after anti-immigration protesters torched busses and police cars, smashed windows of shops and looted them and allegedly beat non-white people.

Reuters reported that police would not comment on the nationality of the suspect. A man in his late 40s, he was disarmed and detained by passers-by, has also been taken for treatment for serious self-inflicted injuries. The Irish Times reported that the chief suspect was a naturalized Irish citizen, who has lived in Ireland for 20 years.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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