Details posted online show how clashes between protesters and gardaí in Coolock developed near a site intended to be used to accommodate migrants from 3am on Monday, and escalated to the point where a garda vehicle was set on fire by 7pm.
Details posted online show how clashes between protesters and gardaí in Coolock developed near a site intended to be used to accommodate migrants from 3am on Monday, and escalated to the point where a garda vehicle was set on fire by 7pm.
There have been a small number of arrests over those months, and at least one incident in which windows were broken on the site. "The amount of garda... I’m after getting a Section 8 and told to leave the area," he says as he walks away from the site. Two other security officers are outside the fencing, as is another man who appears to know the person taking the video recording.
"Lads there's migrants here in Crown Paints, loads of them are after going in... there’s bodies needed at Crown Paints," he said. Others soon echoed his call. None of the videos which RTÉ could find online show the fencing being breached or the fire in the excavator being started in that period. With the excavator at the entrance to the site in flames, gardaí began arriving at the scene in numbers. A video posted at 10.49am by a protester shows about ten gardaí lined up outside the entrance.
By 11.45am, protesters were using the damaged fencing to push into a line of about two dozen gardaí who had formed up near the site entrance. As the garda public order unit arrived on the scene, young males – many with their faces covered - moved the damaged fences to block the movement of the gardaí.
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