Police investigate racially motivated hate crimes in Belfast

Police said they were investigating several racially-motivated hate crimes in Belfast on Tuesday evening, including an attack on a young boy by a group of youths.

A superintendent moved to reassure the community that officers remained active in the city after several violent incidents had broken out after anti-immigration protests.

Police had come under attack and businesses in the city have been targeted amid the disorder.

On Tuesday, three men were arrested after reports of criminality in the north of the city.

At around 8.45pm, it was reported to police that a car was hijacked by a group of masked men on Fingal Street.

The vehicle was driven at the front of a business on Woodvale Road, causing minimal damage to the building, according to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Officers were immediately deployed to the scene when it was reported, just after 9.25pm, that masked men were smashing windows in the Rathlin Street area.

Three men aged 26, 28 and 41 years have been…

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