LONDON: A driver was arrested early Friday morning in Dublin after crashing his van into gates exterior the house of Eire’s president, the workplaces of the prime minister and the constructing housing parliament, police mentioned.
Detectives questioning the suspect had dominated out terrorism as a motive.
The sequence of incidents occurred round 2 a.m., when authorities workplaces have been closed, and no accidents have been reported.
The van first rammed the fence exterior the official residence of President Michael Higgins, however didn’t enter the grounds. The motive force then traveled about 3 miles (5 kilometers) to central Dublin, the place the van plowed into a number of gates exterior two authorities constructing complexes.
Pickets within the sturdy iron fence exterior the workplaces of Prime Minister Simon Harris have been bent inward and the gate was knocked off its hinges exterior the lawyer common’s workplace.
Louise O’Reilly, a member of parliament for the Sinn Féin celebration, mentioned she and different lawmakers will ask police, often known as gardaí, how the incidents may have occurred.
“It’s exhausting to grasp how somebody was capable of perform these assaults in a number of places on this method,” O’Reilly advised nationwide broadcaster RTE. “We will probably be trying to the gardaí to offer us with info as to how this might have unfolded and the way somebody was capable of journey to a few separate places in Dublin metropolis earlier than being apprehended.”
The motive force, who’s in his 40s, was arrested on the scene on suspicion of driving offenses. The white van he was driving was towed from the scene.
Detectives questioning the suspect had dominated out terrorism as a motive.
The sequence of incidents occurred round 2 a.m., when authorities workplaces have been closed, and no accidents have been reported.
The van first rammed the fence exterior the official residence of President Michael Higgins, however didn’t enter the grounds. The motive force then traveled about 3 miles (5 kilometers) to central Dublin, the place the van plowed into a number of gates exterior two authorities constructing complexes.
Pickets within the sturdy iron fence exterior the workplaces of Prime Minister Simon Harris have been bent inward and the gate was knocked off its hinges exterior the lawyer common’s workplace.
Louise O’Reilly, a member of parliament for the Sinn Féin celebration, mentioned she and different lawmakers will ask police, often known as gardaí, how the incidents may have occurred.
“It’s exhausting to grasp how somebody was capable of perform these assaults in a number of places on this method,” O’Reilly advised nationwide broadcaster RTE. “We will probably be trying to the gardaí to offer us with info as to how this might have unfolded and the way somebody was capable of journey to a few separate places in Dublin metropolis earlier than being apprehended.”
The motive force, who’s in his 40s, was arrested on the scene on suspicion of driving offenses. The white van he was driving was towed from the scene.
