Shortly before US President Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland, police discovered four pipe bombs in the city of Londonderry on Tuesday. They had been defused and would now be investigated, it said in a statement.
According to the investigators, the explosives were found in a cemetery that had been the scene of a Catholic-Republican group march the day before. On the sidelines of the unregistered demonstration, riots broke out on Monday in which a police car was set on fire.
Molotov cocktails were thrown at police cars
During the search of the cemetery, stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails were thrown at police cars (pictured below), police said. According to initial findings, no one was injured and two vehicles were damaged. The City of Londonderry is only called Derry by its Catholic residents.
The US president was expected on Tuesday evening to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in the Northern Ireland capital, Belfast. The 1998 peace deal ended decades of civil war between the predominantly Catholic supporters of uniting the two parts of Ireland and the predominantly Protestant supporters of Northern Ireland’s union with Great Britain.
Outbreaks of violence have become rare. But society is still deeply divided.
Source: Krone
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