The Five Demands

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Cinque agenti di polizia sono rimasti feriti durante i disordini legati alla stagione delle marce orangiste in Irlanda del Nord.
Tre agenti sono stati il bersaglio di lanci di pietri, mattoni e sei molotov a Rasharkin, nella contea di Antrim.
Una donna di poliziotto è stato ferito stasera in disordini separati nell’area nazionalista di Ardoyne.
Poliziotti aggrediti da rivoltosi all’interfaccia settaria alla testa di una controversa parata, da una loggia locale di ritorno dalla manifestazione principale di Belfast.
Per tutta la sera mattoni, pietre e bottiglie sono state lanciate ad intermittenza contro le file della polizia nelle vicinanze dei negozi di  Ardoyne che si trovano sul tragitto.
Giovani uomini mascherati, alcuni di loro erano armati di sbarre di ferro, si sono riuniti nei vicoli nella vicinanze dei negozi, per ‘fabbricare’ molotov. A un certo punto un ragazzo mascherato è stato visto arrivare con una tanica di benzina in modo che gli altri potessero riempire le bottiglie.
Verso le 18.30 alcuni di questi giovani hanno cominciato a lanciare bombe incendiarie contro gli agenti del PSNI in tenuta anti-sommossa che reangendo hanno cercato di arretrare i rivoltosi poco prima delle 19.
Cannoni ad acqua ed elicotteri sono stati impiegati per sedare e controllare i disordini.
Sporadici gli attacchi contro abitazioni alla periferia di Belfast, che si vanno ad aggiungere ai numerosi attacchi settari verificatisi durante lo scorso week end.

Rioters clash with police on Ardoyne march route (The Irish Times)
Five police officers have been injured during violence and rioting linked to the marching season in Northern Ireland.
Three officers came under attack from youths who hurled stones, masonry and six petrol bombs at them in Rasharkin, County Antrim.
A police woman was also hurt tonight in separate disturbances at the nationalist Ardoyne shop-front flashpoint in north Belfast.
Police were attacked by rioters at the sectarian interface ahead of a controversial parade by a local lodge returning from the main Belfast demonstration.
Throughout the evening bricks stones and bottles were intermittently thrown at police lines at Ardoyne shops which are along the contested route.
In the back alleys around the shops young masked men, some carrying iron bars, gathered with bottles to make petrol bombs. At one stage a masked youth was seen arriving with a plastic petrol container so others could fill the petrol bombs.
At about 6.30pm some of these youths began throwing these bombs at the police who were in full riot gear. These and other missiles were hurled at officers in a sustained period of trouble.
Police in full body armour made an assault on some of the rioters gathered at the shops to try to force them back into the side streets shortly before 7pm.
Water canon were also brought to the scene of the disturbances. A police helicopter also monitored the scenes.
Sporadic attacks on homes and properties outside Belfast, mainly in Co Antrim also continued today.
A petrol bomb was thrown at an Orange hall at Main Street in Rasharkin, Co Antrim on Sunday evening but it failed to ignite. A 38-year-old man has since been charged with attempted arson.
Officers also came under further attack today with missiles during a security operation in Armagh.
They were dealing with a bomb which exploded in the Friary Road area of the city earlier. Police said four people were arrested for public order offences and minor disturbances with several petrol bombs thrown but no injuries.
There were two cars stolen but police and local representatives are working to restore calm.
In Derry police officers were on duty on the streets of the city following minor disturbances which followed the first July Orange Order parade to he held in the city since 2005.
The officers were deployed when a group of nationalist youths clashed with loyalist youths as bandsmen returning from the Field following the procession. The incidents took place in the Diamond area of the city centre as the three local lodges walked through the city centre at the end of the day’s parade.