Youth centre accuses gardaí of ‘harassment and brutality’

ALLEGATIONS of garda “harassment and brutality” against young people have been made by a community organisation at an Oireachtas committee.

Youth centre The Base, located in Ballyfermot, south-west Dublin, claimed that the abuse was “widespread”.

The Base’s youth co-ordinator, Amel Yacef, told the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children youth workers had witnessed it and claimed it was happening “every night”.