The police removed all traces of the migrants’ tent city in the heart of Dublin – Document

Dublin police removed 200 tents from the streets of Dublin and herded shocked Afghans, Pakistanis and Nigerians into buses as the streets were washed and cleaned.

Tent city in the heart of Dublin

Just after sunrise, a convoy of police cars, trucks, cranes and buses arrived to dismantle a tent city migrants had set up in the heart of Dublin.

The situation was no longer tenable, the tent city had grown too large, too visible and become too politically strenuous for the authorities.

Removed all traces

The streets were cordoned off and shocked, sleepy men from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and other countries were herded into buses while their 200 or so tents were removed and all traces of the camp erased.

– But like The Guardian writes, – sweeping and flushing could not remove the smell of failed politics and elections that had gone wrong.

The stench of failed politics

– Everyone agreed that the slum was an abomination – unsanitary, unsafe, unfair, a stain on Ireland’s conscience – but the manner and timing of its removal reeked of politics, both Irish and British.

Bickering between Dublin and London

Ireland’s Justice Minister Helen McEntee said a week ago that 80 percent of newly arrived migrants came via Northern Ireland. The case was used by Rishi Sunak to “prove” that The Rwanda Plan bears fruit. This in turn led to a spat between Dublin and London, as they are under pressure on both sides of the Irish Sea to control migration.

The voters have had enough

In England and Wales, the Tories are afraid of being wiped out in the local elections on Thursday and in the parliamentary elections later this year. Ireland’s governing coalition is under similar pressure ahead of local elections, parliamentary elections in March and European Parliament elections in June.

– Ethnic cleansing

The migrant-welcoming organization Social Rights Ireland, which had provided tents and blankets, called the action “ethnic cleansing”:

– Moving people out of sight and out of mind is ethnic cleansing.

Ireland’s government blames the Rwanda plan for its self-inflicted migration crisis

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