Irish Examiner view: Alarm over youth disorder in North

Children as young as 12 arrested for anti-protocol rioting
Irish Examiner view: Alarm over youth disorder in North

Anti Northern Ireland Protocol protesters were warned by police that they face prosecution for staging the protest at Lanark Way in the Shankill area of west Belfast. Picture: Alan Lewis/Photopress

IT is alarming to note that children as young as 12 have been arrested for anti-protocol rioting in Northern Ireland. 

Two boys have been arrested following disorder in Belfast after a rally against the protocol. Up to 100 youths attacked police following a rally. Police were attacked with missiles and fireworks close to a peace line in Belfast on Wednesday evening.

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