Gardaí make progress identifying migrant camp attackers

A makeshift campsite with tents beside the tolka river in Ashtown. The site is now abandoned as homeless migrants had set up the camp, has been abandoned after a group of men threatened and attacked the inhabitants. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

Gardaí are making progress in identifying assailants involved in a violent incident at a migrant camp in Dublin last Monday.

The attack was fuelled by a mistaken belief that occupants of the camp, in Ashtown, north Dublin, were involved in an alleged sexual assault on a woman in Finglas last Friday week.