Man armed with a meat cleaver threatens peoplein Dublin

Man armed with a meat cleaver threatens people in the street after cars and apartment block are set on fire on Dublin estate

  • Footage showed a man fleeing for safety while being chased with a meat cleaver
  • In the video a fire is raging in the background, on the housing estate in Dublin
  • Ireland’s Garda police have arrested a 40-year-old man over ‘criminal damage’ 

A man armed with a meat cleaver went on a menacing rampage in Dublin after two cars and an apartment block were set on fire nearby.  

Footage shared online showed a man fleeing for safety while the hooded attacker chases him with the huge blade and a fire rages in the background. 

Police said a man in his 40s had been arrested in connection with ‘criminal damage’ caused by two fires in the area.   

In one video, a hooded man is seen apparently chasing another man around the back of a red van, on an estate in the Clarehall area of Dublin.  

As the other man tries to run for safety he is pursued by the hooded attacker with what looks like a meat cleaver. 

The other man, wearing a blue T-shirt, again takes refuge behind a vehicle as the blade-wielding man tries to reach him. 

However the attacker then appears to lose interest in the chase, walking away past a parked car. 

The hooded man sees the other bystander near the red van

Footage taken at a housing estate in Dublin shows a man fleeing for safety while the hooded attacker chases him with the huge blade (right) and a fire rages in the background (left)

The person filming the scene is heard shouting out in terror as he watches from the car, saying: ‘Holy f***… meat cleaver, someone’s going to die. Holy s***.’ 

While the chase is happening smoke can be seen pouring out from in front of a building on the housing estate.  

Ireland’s gardai police have arrested a man in his 40s following ‘several incidents of criminal damage by fire’. 

Police said they were also investigating another fire which was started in the Coolock area less than an hour earlier on Monday.  

The hooded man gives chase

The meat cleaver is circled

The hooded man gives chase to the other man (left) who is trying to take cover behind a car and protect himself from what appears to be a meat cleaver (circled, right) 

A spokesperson said: ‘Gardai have arrested a man in his 40s following several incidents of criminal damage by fire that occurred in the Coolock and Clarehall areas of Dublin. 

‘At approximately 12.30pm Gardaí received reports that a man had set fire to the outside of an apartment complex in the Newtown Court area of Coolock Dublin 17. 

‘Shortly after at approximately 12:55pm the Gardaí arrested a man after two cars were set alight in the Templeview Green area of Clarehall Dublin 13.

‘The man is currently detained in Coolock Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act. Investigations are continuing.’ 

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