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In the west Dublin suburb of Tallaght, a group of teenagers assaulted, beat, and partially stripped an Indian man, who was then filmed staggering and bleeding. Days later, a gang attacked another Indian man in the nearby suburb of Clondalkin, hitting him in the face, chest, back, and legs, leaving him with a fracture, gashes, and multiple bruises.
Days later again, two male passengers turned on an Indian taxi driver in the north Dublin suburb of Ballymun, striking him across the face with a bottle and shouting: “Go back to your country.”
Days later, boys in a County Waterford housing estate allegedly punched a six-year-old girl in the face, hit her in the genital area with a bicycle, and told her: “Go back to India.”
These incidents have sown alarm and bewilderment among the Indian community and other immigrants in Ireland. In each case, the police are investigating, but no charges have yet been brought.
Indians held a silent protest outside the justice department, and the Indian embassy in Dublin has urged its citizens to take security precautions and avoid deserted areas. Media in India have given prominent coverage to the assaults, a jolt to those from the country who had long considered Ireland a safe, welcoming destination.
Each new incident raises urgent questions. Since the 1990s, immigration has transformed a once mono-ethnic country into one where a fifth of the population was born overseas. In recent years, anger over a lack of affordable homes has fueled resentment towards immigrants and asylum seekers and led to protests, some violent. Thugs posted videos of attacks on tents with refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
Since June, there has been a spate of brutal assaults on people from south Asia, many of whom have lived in Ireland for years and are taxi drivers, tech workers, or medical professionals.
“We are accustomed to micro-aggressions,” said Fahmeda Naheed, a poet and human rights activist from Pakistan who has lived in Cork for 13 years. “We are seeing more physical assaults. It is more forceful and aggressive than in the past. It has coincided with the housing shortage and antisocial behavior of the youth.”
Naheed called for improved policing and procedures to encourage victims to come forward, counseling, anti-racism education, and hate crime legislation.
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/10/violent-attacks-ireland-indian-immigrants
