Young people are unaware that they are being 'exploited and groomed' into criminal violence by paramilitary groups, a QUBelfast academic has said.
Young people are unaware that they are being "exploited and groomed" into criminal violence by paramilitary groups, a leading academic has said.at an illegal republican parade in Londonderry on Monday.
Shortly after Monday's Easter parade commenced in Creggan, petrol bombs and other objects were thrown at a police vehicle at the junction of Iniscarn Road and Linsfort Drive."This was a senseless and reckless attack on our officers who were in attendance in the area in order to comply with our legal duties," Ch Supt Nigel Goddard said.
"We have clusters of areas where violence is still quite endemic and young people are routinely incited to engage in criminality and violence," Dr Walsh told BBC News NI. Dr Walsh said paramilitaries in both loyalist and republican communities are "very good at fostering mistrust" and said that this can often "create an illusion of risk".
Dr Walsh said this fostering of mistrust is targeted and makes some young people think that "outsiders wish them harm and are a threat - like statutory organisations, particularly, the police". "There is a massive issue around safeguarding for young people caught up in this type of trouble," he said.
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