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Police in Dublin say they have arrested more than 30 people after a night of rioting and looting that saw shops and public transport infrastructure smashed and set on fire by far-right racist gangs.The violence broke out in the Irish capital on Thursday evening after a knife attack in the city centre which left a 5-year-old girl and a school care assistant in critical condition.
As Prime Minister Leo Varadkar warned that further protests are being organised online, Ireland's police commissioner Drew Harris told journalists that a "hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology" was behind the violence.
In a press conference on Friday morning, Harris defended the speed of the police response despite a build-up of anti-immigrant tensions on social media in advance of the violence and pointed to the large element of the mob that simply looted shops, in particular sportswear retailers.
"It has to be said that the crowds of those at first protesting, filled with hate directed towards members of An Garda Síochána (the police), were then supplemented with those who were only intent upon crime, disorder and the looting of premises."
Videos posted on social media showed a man shoving a flaming box inside a police car and closing the door, and when the vehicle caught on fire the mob of more than 50 people cheered and roared their approval.
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