Conor McGregor has taken to social media to voice his opinion on the violence that took place in Dublin last week. Photo: Getty Images/Justin Setterfield < p>Irish police are reportedly investigating Conor McGregor's social media posts amid growing concerns about the spread of hate speech online following far-right riots in Dublin last week.
The Irish capital witnessed the worst incident of violence in history. Decades on Thursday night as an anti-migrant mob looted shops and set fire to police cars in Dublin city center just hours after three children and a nursery worker were injured in a knife attack.
Police said The riots erupted after «hateful speculation» was made about the identity of the knife man based on material circulating on the Internet and linked the riots to «a group of madmen and hooligans driven by far-right ideology.»
Their fury was fueled by unsubstantiated reports that the man who attacked the children was from Algeria.
Mr McGregor, a Dublin-based MMA star known for his controversial comments, said he did not condone the riots but was calling for «change». in Ireland.
Responding to a post by Britain First leader Paul Golding on X, formerly known as Twitter, calling for a Freedom March, Mr McGregor said the violence «hasn't helped solve the problems that we encounter.”
“However, I understand the frustration and understand that steps need to be taken to ensure the changes we need begin. And fast!» — he said in a series of posts criticizing Ireland's leaders and the country's migration policies.
“I am in the process of organizing. Believe me, I am much more tactful and I have support. There will be change in Ireland, mark my words. Change is needed,” added Mr McGregor.
The far right riots in Dublin last week were the worst of them. Violence that the capital has seen for decades. Photo: Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne
While there was no suggestion Mr McGregor endorsed violence or far-right policies, he also listed a raft of crimes allegedly committed by immigrants against Irish citizens and warned that unless the government «starts act promptly on my plan of action» to ensure the security of Ireland, I will do so.»
The messages are said to be being reviewed by the Gardaí, the Irish police force, as part of an investigation into the spread of hate speech online.
'Our Country'
Mr McGregor's remarks drew immediate criticism from Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister Michel Martin, who called them “absolutely disgraceful.”
“Isolated voices like these, and voices that are essentially hate speech and to some extent inciting hatred, are unacceptable,” he said.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar declined to comment directly on Mr McGregor's remarks but said new hate speech laws needed to be introduced in passing.
Mr McGregor, who has more than 10 million followers on X and more than 47 million on Instagram, has recently taken an active stance on the immigration debate. months.
Following the conviction earlier this month of Slovakian worker Josef Puska for the murder of 23-year-old teacher Ashling Murphy in the central town of Tullamore, he has called for «serious policy reforms to Ireland's immigration and refugee processes».
< p>Among his demands was the creation of a new task force «with the sole purpose of assessing and monitoring everyone entering Ireland.»
«Our country is at stake and we will not tolerate anything less,» Mr MacGregor said.
«Our country is at stake and we will not tolerate anything less,» Mr McGregor said.
p>“He says what they like to hear.”
Observers say the former UFC champion, previously convicted of assault, may be positioning himself as a “figurehead of the far right.”
“He fits into the myth of the violent alpha male. to achieve his goal, and he is a multimillionaire. He says what they like to hear,” Brian Wall, editor of online publication The Beacon, told The Telegraph.
Ireland for years seemed immune to the far-right movement that has gained influence across Europe in countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland in recent years. But concerns about health care and housing shortages, among other issues, have recently increasingly been expressed in anti-immigrant rhetoric via social media, Mr. Wall said.
Institute for Strategic Discourse report, counternarrative Think Tank on Extremism , published just days before the Dublin riots, reported that Ireland's online disinformation ecosystem had been successfully exploited by far-right actors who, following the easing of Covid restrictions, had shifted their focus to vulnerable groups. community.»
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