A 16-year-old boy arrested after stabbing an Irish Army chaplain in Galway on Thursday was charged with assault on Saturday and detained in a juvenile centre. He appeared before a children's court in the town in the west of Ireland this afternoon, charged with “assault occasioning bodily harm”.
The court refused him bail and remanded him to Oberstown Juvenile Center and will appear in court again on Tuesday, August 20, the BBC reports. Irish police said on Friday they were treating the knife attack on Chaplain Paul Murphy, in his 50s, at the entrance to Renmore Barracks on the outskirts of Galway as terrorism.
Not sure if “this incident is part of a larger conspiracy”.
A representative of Irish police told the hearing that the teenager could be charged again at a later date depending on the findings of the investigation. BBC. “As of now, the incident is not believed to be part of a larger conspiracy,” the police added.
The 16-year-old teenager, whose name has not been released due to his age, was quickly subdued by soldiers, arrested at the scene and taken into police custody. According to the newspaper Irish Times, Citing police sources, the suspect is said to have been radicalized on the internet in recent months. According to the Irish newspaper, the teenager will be angry about the presence of Irish forces in the Middle East. The Irish Armed Forces are involved in many peacekeeping missions around the world, including in Lebanon.
A baton to subdue an assailant
Still, according to the paper, the chaplain, who arrived in front of the barracks in his car on Thursday evening, saw the teenager coming in his direction and rolled down the window. He then stabbed him several times with a hidden knife.
Guards at the barracks fired five warning shots “in accordance with protocols for the protection of the armed forces” and used batons to control the attacker, the army said in a statement.
Chaplain Paul Murphy, who was hospitalized with serious injuries, thanked the public for their support in a message posted on Facebook on Friday. “My friends, I thank you for your prayers,” he wrote Friday before the surgery.
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