PA mediaA Stormant Minister has rejected the calls to resign in a publication on social networks about the location of migrant families who left their homes hours before the center was attacked.
The Minister of Communities, Gordon Lyons, said that people trapped in confrontations in Ballymena moved temporarily to Larne Leisure Center. He was later attacked by a multitude of 100 people and set fire.
The minister was a bee battery “reckless and dangerous” by the member of the Assembly of the Alliance, Danny Donnelly, who was in the leisure center when a multitude of about 100 crushed windows and set the containers fire.
The secretary of Ireland of the North, Hilary Benn, said that Lyons should reflect on her comments, while the Green Party asked Lyons to resign.
The attack on the leisure center of Larne arrived a third night of violence in Northern Ireland.
Police have been attacked with fireworks, bottles and bricks duration of the disorder.
The riots sausage was in Ballymena, but the riots also extended to other cities, including Larne, about 20 miles (30 km) away, on Wednesday night.
The Firefighters service said that fire damage to the center had “contained mainly in the front reception, but there was great smoke damage.”
In a statement on Wednesday night, the Middle and Eastern Athrim Council said that families placed in the center were “safely relocated” and no longer used the center.
However, Lyons has been criticized for a previous Facebook publication in which he said he had known that “several people were temporarily transferred to Larne Leisure Center.”
Alliance Mla Danny Donnelly said: “I thought it was incredible and dangerous to highlight the location of where these people were being kept and taken to a security place.”
Matthew O’Toole of the SDLP said he would send Lyons to the Commissioner of Standards on his comments, saying that “the lives are at stake.”
PA mediaLyons has defended his comments saying that the information was in the public domain, and had been confirmed by the local council.
“I will return the answer with great the notion that I had revealed the use of this installation to the public when the protest was already planned, when everyone knew what was happening,” Lyons told the Good Morning Ulster program of BBC Radio Ulster.
Hey added that “the police had contacted our local councilors to say:” We need to disable the situation and let people know that this is or should not be the focus of any protest. “”
GettyThe councilor of the Green Party, Aine Groogan, accused the minister of choosing “to stir the division and deviate from his own failures.”
“This is not leadership. It is cowardice. And it demonstrates what many already know: Gordon Lyons is not suitable for a public office and should resign.”
The problem was Monday after a peaceful protest about an alleged sexual assault in Ballymena, Anthrim county.
Duration The first two nights of disorder, 32 officers were injured and six people arrested.
In Ballymena on Wednesday, smoke bombs, fireworks, bottles and bricks with a police duration with a gathered crowd were thrown.
A row of six Police Land Rovers advanced on the crowd, with officers with complete riot team pushing a number or return individuals.
The police also deployed dogs and a water cannon.
Earlier on Wednesday it was confirmed that a significant number of additional police officers were deployed in the affected areas.
The Scotland Police agreed to send the officers, after the Police in Ireland of the North requested additional support under mutual aid agreements.
