“Someone will end killed.” Warning after two nights of revolt in Northern Ireland, triggered by a rape attempt in which the suspects are Romanian

Six people were arrested and dozens of policemen were injured, while cars and houses were burned in Ballymen during the violent protests of the locals. “I am afraid that, if this continues, someone will be killed,” warned Paul Frew from North Antrim, the affected area, quoted by Irish Independent publication.

Northern Ireland police said on Wednesday that he arrested six people after the second night of disturbances in the city of Ballymena, started after an attempt to rape in which the suspects are two Romanian young people.

Another 17 police officers were injured as a result of the attacks from the angry crowd who threw fireworks, bricks and incendiary bombs. The number of officers injured in the two nights of violence reached 33, writes Irish Independent.

Local officials have condemned violence.

“I want to condemn again what happened in the last two nights, not only in Ballymen, but, as we have seen, it has expanded in other areas. It is completely deplorable that this happens. We need these attacks to cease, and to cease very quickly,” said Liaam Kelly, the president of the Federation of Northern Irish.

The disorder broke out on Tuesday shortly before 8 pm and continued for several hours, with Molotov bricks and cocktails thrown on police officers and cars.

The calm was restored in the Ballymen area after 1 o'clock on Wednesday, after the police mobilized at least four armored vehicles and had to use a water cannon.

Cars and houses burned

The protests seem to have been directed against foreigners in general, and officials have accused the “racism” of protesters.

The deputy chief of the Northern Ireland Police Service (PSNi) Ryan Henderson, stressed that members of the minority ethnic community “felt fear” during the protests, writes The Irish Times.

Some Philippine workers in the area have begun to put on their doors to display their nationality, in an apparent attempt to avoid attack. Other people also flown British flags or hang them on windows.

A man whose house was attacked in Ballymen, Antrim, confessed his shock, after a crowd arrived and threatened to kill him.

Raymond Labaniego told Irish Independent of hiding in the house after the protesters appeared at his door, shouting at those inside.

The incident took place on Monday, during the first night of violence, in what a police chief cataloged as “racist revolts”.

In Cullybackey, the house of a family in the Philippines was also the target of an incendiary attack.

And a Romanian citizen with three children living in one of the houses told the news agency that he is afraid to stay in the area and that the children asked her why they are attacked.

Six homes were attacked, and four of them were affected by fires.

Some companies were also targeted and had broken windows. Several cars have also been burned.

“Someone will be killed”

Politicians have appealed to the cessation of violence.

“I am afraid that if this continues, someone will be killed,” said deputy Paul Fred in North Antrim.

The leader after, Gavin Robinson, also told the Nolan Show from the BBC that he asks the protesters to “withdraw” and “leave the people in Ballymen in peace.”

He demanded that violence cease and refer to the peaceful time of wake that preceded the violence in the area on Monday evening.

“They have to cease. They destroy their own community, they intimidate their neighbors to the end, do not create the space necessary to carry out discussions about the problems that bother them,” he said.

The official spokesman of the British Prime Minister also described the events in which the police and the ethnic minorities were targeted as “very worrying”.

A third arrest in the case of rape attempt

Two 14 -year -old boys appeared on Monday in front of the court, being accused of attempted rape. The accusations were read to adolescents by a Romanian performer.

On Tuesday, the North-Irish police announced that it had made a third arrest in relation to the incident and reiterated the public call for information.

A local police chief, Jon Boutcher warned that violence threatens to undermine the justice process that should punish the guilty of rape and do justice to the victim.

“The meaningless violence I have attended in the last two nights in Ballymen is deeply worrying and totally unacceptable. These criminal acts not only endanger lives, but also risk undermine the current criminal justice process in support of a victim who deserves truth, justice and protection,” he said.