Night of chaos: This is unheard of for decades; "Kill everyone you come across" VIDEO

Night of chaos: This is unheard of for decades; "Kill everyone you come across" VIDEO

Demonstrations after the attack on Thursday afternoon in front of the Parnell Square school turned into a night of disorder and violence.

Dublin Police Chief Constabulary Drew Harris told a news conference that 34 rioters had been arrested so far, but he feared the violence would continue.

13 shops, 11 police vehicles, three buses and a tram were destroyed, he said, adding that one policeman was seriously injured in the clashes with the demonstrators, while several others were also injured. "Something like this hasn't been seen in decades," Harris pointed out, adding that it can be assumed that there will be more riots. Demonstrators who clashed with the intervention police threw torches and pyrotechnics, and others grabbed chairs in front of restaurants and bars.

A police cordon was set up around the Irish parliament building, Leinster House, late Thursday night, with Irish Mounted Guard officers arriving as backup, amid concerns that violence could spread to the seat of Irish institutions.

Police Commissioner Drew Harris blamed the riots on "a complete lunatic faction driven by far-right ideology."

How it started and why

The problems arose after shocking scenes around lunchtime on Thursday when three children and the woman who was looking after them were stabbed near a primary school.

A five-year-old girl underwent emergency treatment for serious injuries. The woman was also seriously injured, while the other two children, a five-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl, received minor injuries. Police said the subject of the investigation is a male suspect who suffered serious injuries at the scene. Claims that the assailant was Algerian appeared on social media, prompting the local population to organize and take to the streets, enraged at migrants. The police initially claimed that they were convinced that the attack was not related to terrorism, but at the evening press conference, a terrorist motive was not definitively ruled out.

Dublin Police Chief Superintendent Patrick McMenamin said the violence by the protesters had nothing to do with the serious attack on Thursday, adding that it was unprovoked violence. Irish President Michael D. Higgins also announced that: "This terrible incident is a matter for the Guard and that it was used or abused by groups with the aim of attacking the principle of social inclusion and deserves the condemnation of all those who believe in the rule of law and democracy."

Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee said the scenes of rioting were "intolerable" and that "a violent and manipulative element must not be allowed to use a terrible tragedy to wreak havoc".

Speaking to the media on Thursday evening, Garda Commissioner Harris said: "We have a complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology and then this destructive tendency involved in serious violence." According to AFP estimates, there were several thousand people at the demonstrations, and it is stated that such protests and violence have not been seen on the streets of Dublin for years.

When the journalists who were on the spot asked the rioters why they were there, they threatened them and told them that "the media is lying about migrants", the Guardian reported.

Some of the demonstrators shouted "This rubbish is attacking the Irish", while others recalled the murder of a teacher for which a Slovak citizen was sentenced to life imprisonment. A call to protesters "to kill every migrant they come across" was also spread on social networks.