Irish police are investigating a series of anti-immigration signs erected in west Belfast as “hate incidents.” The signs sprung up as Ireland has descended into civil unrest over the recent stabbing of multiple school children by an Algerian immigrant in Dublin.
One of the signs being investigated as a hate crime reads, “Irish Lives Matter.” The phrase was written in graffiti on the wall of the Kennedy Centre on Falls Road, according to BBC.
Another sign under investigation was erected in the Tilgard Avenue area. It states that the community “will no longer accept the re-housing of illegal immigrants”.
Gerry Carroll of People Before Profits took offense to the “Irish Lives Matter” sign and that there is “no place in our society for this kind of racist poison.”
“We are under no illusions that ‘Irish Lives Matter’ is a racist slogan which is directly counterpoised to movements against the oppression faced by black people and other ethnic minorities,” he said, according to the network.
Paul Maskey, a Sinn Fein MP, called the signs “disgraceful” and insisted that they had been…
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