Northern Ireland, clashes on the anniversary Agreements Good Friday. Molotov cocktails against the police

Clashes in northern Ireland on the occasion of 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreements. During a demonstration a Londonderry some men with covered faces attacked the police by throwing them molotovson the eve of arrival at Belfast of the American president Joe Biden

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Nobody stayed wound and law enforcement officials urged “to calm”: “Our agents were attacked with Molotov cocktails and others objects thrown at their vehicle during a parade” held in the neighborhood of creggan by opponents of the Accords and that it was not authorized

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THE protesters they intended to march to the graveyard to commemorate the anniversary of the Irish rising against the British, which took place during Easter 1916

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The April 10, 1998 agreements were signed between United Kingdomin the person of the premier Tony Blairand Ireland, represented by Taoiseachi.e. by the prime minister, Bertie Ahernwhich put an end to the so-called Troublesthe war lasted over 30 years in Ulster among unionists and independentists. In this way Dublin recognized British sovereignty on Ulster and London did not close the door to a potential reunification of the island

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They played a central role in the signing the United States and the announced presence of Joe Biden is proof of this: the role of USAthanks to the strong Irish presence, has always been central and close to the democratic presidentof Celtic ancestry, only reinforces such bond

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As it reports The Corriere della Serathere are different feelings on both sides. For those who fought a life to defend the Britishness of Ulster, today there is a feeling of resignation. “I’m not IrishI am an Ulster man defending her Britishness,” proclaims a veteran of loyalist paramilitary militias. “The country is meant to be united but I don’t think it can ever really be after all that violence and bloodshed”

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Who still defends the British character of Northern Ireland he saw himself betrayed by the London governmentwhich in order not to create a physical border a Belfast With the‘European Union has left Ulster in the European single market, detaching it from itself. For this reason many loyalists regret the 2016 Brexit vote, who sanctioned what the Good Friday Accords had only postponed

Of a completely different spirit republican sentiment: “Thanks to the peace accords I was able to remove my balaclava”, he told the Courier a former IRA guerrilla that was 12 years in prison for planting bombs in the center of Belfast. “The strategic objective remains the same: the end of the British occupation in Northern Ireland. I’ve never been so confident that by the end of this decade we will have the referendum on reunification of Ireland”

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