'Love Ulster' accused also facing assault charge
A teenager arrested for looting during the riots at the Love Ulster rally in Dublin in February is also facing an assault charge.
The 17-year-old boy, an asylum seeker from Georgia who has been in Ireland since last October without any parents, was arrested in connection with looting during the riots that erupted during the “Love Ulster” rally.
He is charged at the Dublin Children’s Court with burglary of the Schuh Shop, on O’Connell Street, which was ransacked during the riots. He is also charged with possession of a set of pliers for use in a connection with a theft offence.
Since then, he was also arrested in connection with a separate incident in which a person was attacked and wounded at the hostel in which he had been residing, on May 15.
In relation to the looting allegations, garda Brian Quirke of Bridewell garda station said the teen was “seen entering the shop and leaving with property before he re-entered it”.
Two days for the hearing were reserved in July, after garda Quirke said the prosecution would involve CCTV footage as well as numerous garda and technical witnesses.
The teen was further remanded in custody at Cloverhill Prison pending the DPP's directions in connection with the alleged assault at the hostel.
Judge Bryan Smyth had heard that the teen has since been barred from living in the hostel which is run by the health services and had previously been barred from two others.
