“Here I live here.” What happened overnight in the city of Northern Ireland where demonstrations against migrants in Romania – VIDEO took place

Violence broke out on Wednesday night in different parts of Northern Ireland for the third consecutive night, masked young people causing a leisure center, but disorders of the main conflict outbreak, Ballymen, were of a significantly lower extent, according to Reuters, BBC and The Guardian.

The disorders came after hundreds of masked protesters on Tuesday night attacked police forces and set fires and cars in Ballymen, a city with 30,000 inhabitants located 45 kilometers from Belfast, in incidents qualified by the police as “racial violence”.

The violence broke out on Monday, after two 14 -year -old boys were arrested and appeared before the court the same day, accused of serious sexual assault on a teenager in the city.

The accusations were read to the two through a Romanian performer, whose lawyer stated before the court that they deny the accusations, according to the BBC. The police are investigating the destruction of properties on Monday and Tuesday in Ballymen, which has a relatively large population of migrants, as offenses motivated by racial hatred.

Dozens of masked young people threw stones, fireworks and gasoline bombs, after officers in anti-revolt and armored vans blocked the roads in the city on Wednesday night.

Ballymena Burns Again this Evening. I do not condone suh violence and Needless destruction. But it is inevitable when politicians do not listen to the people they pretend to serve. pic.twitter.com/iot7qcgopg

– Nick Buckley MBE (@NickBuckleymbe) June 11, 2025

The police used water cannons against the crowd for the second consecutive night, but the clashes were not the extent of the previous night, when 17 policemen were injured and five arrests were made.

Much of the crowd to restrain the streets before midnight.

Incidents and wide after posting a minister of northern Ireland

A small number of scooters of law enforcement were also in the city of Larne, 30 kilometers west, where young masked broke the windows of a leisure center before starting fires in the hall.

Swimming courses were in progress when bricks were thrown through the windows, and the employees were barricading inside and then fled the back door, a local parliamentarian told BBC.

The incidents here came after the Minister of Communities of Northern Ireland, Gordon Lyons, wrote on Facebook that some people had been temporarily brought to the Bollymen's Leisure Center, and then moved from Larne.

His statements aroused harsh criticism from other political parties because he identified a place used to shelter families who were refuge for anti-immigrant violence. Lyons condemned the attack on the Leisure Center.

Police said the young people also set fire to a roundabout in Newtownabbey, a outbreak of sectarian violence that breaks sporadically in the region administered by the British, 27 years after the peace agreement that has largely ended the three decades of blood.

Also, scraps were set on a barricade in Coleraine, wrote Belfast Telegraph.

“Here I live Philippines”

Two Philippine families told Reuters that they fled their house in Ballytha on Tuesday evening, fearing for their safety, after their car was burned in front of the house.

Others have decided to protect themselves from the crowd on the streets of Ballymen by stickers on the entrance doors and flags, signaling that they are good foreigners, foreigners who do not cause problems and deserve to be spared, according to The Guardian.

“Here I live here,” it is written on posters with the Philippine flag, used as talismans against destruction. Other families have put British flags with the hope of deviating the wrath of the crowd and avoiding their houses.

“I put it yesterday,” said Blanka Harnagea, 38, an immigrant from the Czech Republic, pointing to the British flag on the window of his living room. To the question of whether the measure works, he answered with a smile: “We are still here.”

British and Irish government officials have criticized the incidents caused in Ballymen and other places. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday condemned “meaningless” violence that targeted migrants in Northern Ireland and said he was kept up to date.