Ireland to tighten hate laws amid far-right Dublin riot ‘shame’
Al JazeeraUnrest started after a knife attack on a woman and three children that seriously wounded a five-year-old girl. Labelling the violence a “shame on Ireland”, Leo Varadkar said on Friday that his government would use the “full resources of the law” to punish the perpetrators and tighten hate and incitement legislation. “We have a complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology, and also then this disruptive tendency engaged in serious violence,” said Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, Ireland’s top police officer. Varadkar went on to pledge that the government would use the “full resources of the law, the full machinery of the state to punish those involved in yesterday’s grotesque events”. He also outlined plans to pass new laws in the coming weeks to enable police “to make better use” of CCTV evidence they collected during the unrest.
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