An Indian man in his 40s was assaulted and stripped by a group of youngsters in Dublin after he was falsely accused of behaving inappropriately around children. Police were treating the incident as an apparent hate crime.
An Indian man in his 40s was assaulted and stripped by a group of attackers in the Irish capital of Dublin. The unnamed individual was falsely accused of acting inappropriately around children and authorities were probing the incident as a possible hate crime, The Irish Times reported.
The incident occurred on July 19 evening when the Indian national was set upon by a group of young men in the suburb of Tallaght and thrashed him. The attackers removed his trousers before passers-by rescued him. The man was left bleeding from multiple wounds on his face, arms and legs.
According to Garda (Irish National Police), the attackers falsely claimed the man was behaving inappropriately around children. These claims were amplified online by prominent far-right and anti-immigrant online accounts.
However, Garda rejected such claims of the man acting inappropriately.
The man was rushed to the Tallaght University Hospital with injuries and was discharged from the hospital on July 20.
“Garda in Tallaght were alerted to an incident at Parkhill Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24, on the evening of Saturday, July 19, 2025, at approximately 6 pm. Garda attended the scene and a male, aged in his 40s was taken to Tallaght University Hospital with injuries,” a police spokesperson said.
According to investigators, some of the attackers have carried out unprovoked attacks on foreigners in the Tallaght area recently, according to The Irish Times.
Garda has opened an investigation into the incident.
Recently, Irish Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan said he was aware of instances of foreign nationals being falsely accused of crimes.
“Increasingly, you hear people blaming immigrants for crimes. All I can say to you is: I have asked for the statistics and when you look at the prison population of people convicted of offences, the percentage of immigrants in prison is lower than the percentage of immigrants in society,” he said.
“So there’s no substance to the suggestion that immigrants are more likely to commit a criminal offence,” he added.
Indian Ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra was critical of the incident involving the Indian man and slammed RTE News for reporting the incident with “alleged assault”.
“How can an ‘alleged’ assault cause such horrible injury and bleeding? Aghast at the insensitivity and obfuscation of RTE News! Thank Hon @paulmurphy_TD @gardainfo and Irish people for their sympathy, support to the innocent victim. Hope the perpetrators are brought to justice!” he tweeted.
EYEWITNESS NARRATE INCIDENT
An eyewitness who claimed she witnessed the Indian man being attacked said the ‘racist gang’ stole his bank cards, phone, shoes and trousers. The Irish woman, whose testimonial has gone viral on social media, said the man was staying with his friend and had arrived in the country a week ago.
“I was driving to my mother-in-law when I saw 13 teenagers, including a woman, rounding up that man. I saw that the man was completely dripped in blood from his head to toes. His entire body was covered in blood,” the woman said.
The eyewitness, who became emotional as she narrated the incident, said the man was embarrassed and visibly shocked by what he had gone through.
“His trousers were pulled down. He was whacked. His head was gashed due to a blade in the knuckles of those animals. And this attack happened at 6 pm in broad daylight,” she alleged.
She warned about the gang, saying its members go around neighbourhoods and stab people in their faces. “Four Indian men were stabbed on the face by these teens in the past four days. How many of you knew that or saw it in the news?” she said.
