Rioting breaks out in north Belfast after anti-internment rally is halted

Rioting breaks out on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast after police stopped a controversial anti-interment rally from proceeding to the city centre. Pic: Kevin Scott / Presseye.

Kevin Scott / Presseye

Rioting breaks out on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast after police stopped a controversial anti-interment rally from proceeding to the city centre. Pic: Kevin Scott / Presseye.

Kevin Scott / Presseye

Anti-Internment parade prevented by the PSNI from entering Belfast City Centre after they broke the parade commission's determination. Trouble takes place on Rosapenna Street off the Oldpark Road in north Belfast as nationalist attack the police. Picture by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye

Anti-Internment parade prevented by the PSNI from entering Belfast City Centre after they broke the parade commission's determination. Trouble takes place on Rosapenna Street off the Oldpark Road in north Belfast as nationalist attack the police. Picture by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye

Anti-Internment parade prevented by the PSNI from entering Belfast City Centre after they broke the parade commission's determination. Trouble takes place on Rosapenna Street off the Oldpark Road in north Belfast as nationalist attack the police. Picture by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye

Anti-Internment parade prevented by the PSNI from entering Belfast City Centre after they broke the parade commission's determination. Trouble takes place on Rosapenna Street off the Oldpark Road in north Belfast as nationalist attack the police. Picture by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye

Rioting breaks out on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast after police stopped a controversial anti-interment rally from proceeding to the city centre. Pic: Kevin Scott / Presseye.

Kevin Scott / Presseye

Rioting breaks out on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast after police stopped a controversial anti-interment rally from proceeding to the city centre. Pic: Kevin Scott / Presseye.

Kevin Scott / Presseye

Rioting breaks out on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast after police stopped a controversial anti-interment rally from proceeding to the city centre. Pic: Kevin Scott / Presseye.

Kevin Scott / Presseye

Rioting breaks out on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast after police stopped a controversial anti-interment rally from proceeding to the city centre. Pic: Kevin Scott / Presseye.

Kevin Scott / Presseye

The anti-Internment parade was prevented from entering Belfast city centre after a breach of a Parades Commission determination. Pic: by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye.

Marchers take part in the anti-internment parade in Belfast. Pic: Kevin Scott / Presseye.

Kevin Scott / Presseye

Marchers take part in the anti-internment parade in Belfast. Pic: Kevin Scott / Presseye.

Kevin Scott / Presseye

A speaker addresses marchers taking part in the anti-internment rally in Belfast. Pic: Kevin Scott / Presseye.

Kevin Scott / Presseye

There was a heavy police presence in Belfast city centre ahead of the parade and loyalist protests. Pic: Jonathan Porter/Presseye.

There was a heavy police presence in Belfast city centre ahead of the parade and loyalist protests. Pic: Jonathan Porter/Presseye.

The anti-internment parade makes its way back after being stopped by police on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast. Pic: Jonathan Porter/Press Eye.

The anti-internment parade makes its way back after being stopped by police on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast. Pic: Jonathan Porter/Press Eye.

The anti-internment parade makes its way back after being stopped by police on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast. Pic: Jonathan Porter/Press Eye.

The anti-internment parade makes its way back after being stopped by police on the Oldpark Road in north Belfast. Pic: Jonathan Porter/Press Eye.

PSNI vehicles on Royal Avenue, Belfast, as a major security operation is under way in the city centre ahead of the contentious republican parade and related loyalist protests. David Young/PA Wire.

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A substantial police operation was mounted ahead of the anti-internment parade which was due to pass through the city centre. David Young/PA Wire

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