Elias Adane (33) came to Ireland as an unaccompanied minor in the early 2000s
Adane began smoking marijuana and later heroin. By the time he was injured, he was “sometimes injecting” heroin too.
Gardaí at the scene where Adane's tent was moved on the banks of the Grand Canal in Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/CollinsDescribing the incident, he says: “When hit me two times, they shout. It was very quick, it broke a bone. It was definitely ... like a big knife, like a machine. It went in my body, the skin break, the bone break,” he says.
After being discharged from hospital, he spent three months in the National Rehabilitation Centre in Dún Laoghaire and from there was placed in a flat in Ballybough, owned and managed by the Peter McVerry Trust under its Housing First programme. This provides housing and wraparound, continual supports to people who have been sleeping rough for extended periods of time.
“I liked it in the city, but it was noisy and a lot of visitors. Some were good, but some bad. It was difficult. They come a lot and one guy brought three or four visitors and I don’t like it. I tell him to go out.”
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