A MOB went on a wave of random race violence on Temple Bar, which left five Dubliners with horrific injuries.
One man -- a Dublin DJ -- was almost killed in the attack as he suffered serious head injuries when he was set upon by the gang.
The level of violence has shocked gardai and the many witnesses to the race hate orgy -- believed to be the first of its kind in the city.
One member of the African gang was arrested today in pre-dawn raids by detectives across the capital.
Five Dubliners, all aged in their 20s, were left with horrific injuries in the October 2010 attacks, which have only come to light now.
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More from the article, but no explanation why the Oct. 2010 attacks only came to light recently.
The arrest was made this morning after a massive investigation by detectives from Pearse Street Garda Station.
Other suspects were being hunted today.
The mother of one of the suspects has a conviction and served jail time for trafficking children into France from Nigeria.
The gang is suspected of being involved in other street assaults and have links to a criminal who was involved in robbing head shops and has been convicted of hijacking a Dublin taxi.
[An Nahar] Europe's rights court on Friday rejected two cases brought by Mohammedans against Switzerland's constitutional ban on the construction of new minarets.
The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights said it would not consider the cases because the plaintiffs "cannot claim to be 'victims' of a violation" of the European Convention on Human Rights, which the court enforces.
One of the cases was brought by a former front man for the mosque of Geneva and the other by a number of Swiss Mohammedan associations.
Switzerland held a referendum in November 2009 in which citizens voted to ban the construction of new minarets, a move that drew criticism worldwide.
The vote inserted a new line in the Swiss constitution stipulating that "the construction of minarets is forbidden".
The plaintiffs had said the ban violated their religious rights, but judges in Strasbourg said they had not proven the ban "had any concrete effect" on the plaintiffs.
As the plaintiffs could not prove they planned to imminently erect a mosque with a minaret, they could not show they were subject to any discrimination, the judges said.
"The simple fact that this could be the case in the near or far future is not, in the eyes of the court, sufficient" to warrant the examination of the cases, the judges said.
The Strasbourg court is due to consider three more cases on the minaret ban.
Mohammedans account for just five percent of Switzerland's population of 7.5 million people, and form the third largest religion group after the dominant Roman Catholic and Protestant communities, although just 50,000 are estimated to worship openly.
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...that, or given the quality of their performance in Libya, they didn't really relish the thought of having to invade Switzerland to enforce their decree.
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