Croatians attacked in Dublin, one man dead - read OP before posting

You'd have to be an especially evil person to wish harm on, or do harm to a person just for not speaking English. Would these scrotes have a go at someone speaking as Gaelilge ?? It wouldn't surprise me to be honest.

I was on my usual LUAS journey this morning and heard many languages spoken - 3-4 minimum easily. It's lovely to hear - particularly if it's a language you know a few words in, a French chap was talking about a horse earlier. No idea what he was talking about it but he seemed happy enough!

I hope the man's friend recovers both mentally and physically and if these monsters are caught let's hope it's not Nolan they are up before.

I hope whoever is responsible is found and locked up for a very long time. Attacking, never mind murdering, someone for not speaking English is vile.

Having said that, the attack was, unfortunately, entirely predictable.

Scumbags don't need much of an excuse to behave like the thugs they are. A combination of a severe housing shortage, and a rapid increase in immigration levels, was always going to lead to tension.

Add the extreme far right stoking tensions ( note: I said the extreme far right, not the moderates with genuine concerns about immigration levels), and a Government and NGOs who refuse to even discuss the issue, and you have the perfect conditions for the proverbial pot to boil over.

The attack was inexcusable, lest anyone should accuse me of justifying it. However, there needs to be some soul searching done by both pro and anti immigration groups. There's real anger in the Country about immigration levels.

It's long past time for a mature, reasonable discussion on the issue.

Otherwise, I'm very much afraid this might not be the last such incident.

And part of that discussion also has to be about law and order, not just hate speech, but actual law and order, with perpetrators of violent crime being locked up for the foreseeable future, irrespective of their nationality..

That's pretty shocking. They really need to get on top of this. Surely one murder which is down to the far right rhetoric is more than enough to get them moving. We only really saw the politicians bothered when the protests were getting rowdy at Leinster House. Sadly it looks like it will probably take a politician being attacked or another few murders before they actually do what needs to be done.

Starting to think we should go down the El Salvador root. Have a mass crackdown and raid areas in Clondalkin and Tallaght and round up all these groups of scumbag teenagers, get them into prison and strip them to their underwear and have them in handcuffs crouched down on their honkers. I do not want to associate in the same country as the scum who did this, I reject them as humans.

Yep, it’s the lack of a reaction to this killing from the government that is utterly shocking to me. Not a single tweet or press release from Helen McEntee to give her condolences to the Croatian family and condemn the attack. We have a precarious situation right now where it is extremely dangerous for any foreign national of any background, ethnicity, language— to wander into the wrong area. The Croatian man wasn’t even alone either, he had a friend with him.

Even my friend who is white and Irish was hit with a bike lock and knocked out cold to the curb on camden street last year by a gang of youths who took his phone and wallet. Crime is the central issue of the next election and this government want to hide away from it. This idea of it being ‘politically incorrect’ to call out the obvious issue—that gangs of working class youth are inherently violent and are committing heinous crimes—is ludicrous.

You'd wonder where all this is heading…..will one of them try and kill a TD or minister at some point?

honestly an attack on a politician doesn’t sound that far-fetched at this stage. I’ve seen how aggressive these people are to them on Twitter and in real life. As you said, it is completely alarming how fast they’ve mobilised their force on the streets, and the scary thing is that a lot of it is disorganised, decentralised and scattered gangs, impossible to predict when they will carry out their next attack. One thing is certain is that clown Elon has accelerated the violence with his algorithms and his tweets compelling Irish fascists to go out and ‘fight’.

The harsh reality is yes we will need more surveillance and more cameras everywhere as dystopian as it sounds it’s the only way to gather evidence to get convictions. What strikes me is how angry these people are, filled with an uncontrollable rage which they want to project onto politicians and onto foreign nationals. Saw a video the other day of even Eoin O’Broin being confronted by these lunatics “EOIN DEFINE WHAT IS A WOMEN? YE CANT DO IT YE **** CLOWN”. They’re brazen, fearless and wreckless. It’s still hard to believe the capital city burned down a few months ago,

Mr. Varadkar would have you believe everything’s going great because ‘the economy looks good’. The fact the Gardai didn’t listen, confiscated the injured man’s phone and suspected the Croatian man ‘had to have been a drug dealer’, simply because he was attacked by a gang of youths is deplorable, and it speaks to the deep lying racist attitudes/suspicions in this country.