Disorder in Northern Ireland for Second Night Amid Brexit Tensions

Disorder in Northern Ireland for Second Night Amid Brexit Tensions
A woman takes a photograph with her smart phone of a burnt out car at the Cloughfern roundabout junction following overnight Loyalist violence on April 4, 2021 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
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Cars were set alight and masked people pelted a police van with petrol bombs on Saturday on the second successive evening of disorder in pro-British parts of Northern Ireland amid rising post-Brexit tensions in the region.

Many pro-British unionists fiercely oppose the new trade barriers introduced between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom as part of Britain’s departure from the EU and have warned that their unease could lead to violence.