Luthori

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Mayor: Incidents reported in Middenhall, 3 injured in politically-motivated attack.
May 5696

MIDDENHALL - It has been reported and later confirmed by police and mayorial sources that clashes have erupted in Middenriding's largest city and capital. Local law enforcement authorities said the confrontation took place in South Middenhall, involving the radical far-left against the radical far-right. Middenhall's local branch of the "International Freedom Fighters" (IFF), a radical far-left organisation openly calling for the overthrow of the current Luthorian government engaged itself in a brawl against members of the far-right, ultramonarchist "Orange Order".

The events took place in a bar next to Malbury Street, there lays a drinking establishment frequently visited by the youth (+18-25 years), these young adults have a tendency to be aligned with far-left theology and ideology, portraits of Ruan Zhi, Karlstein Metz, Vladimir Leonid or even Maxime Flandin (former Aldurian dictator) hangs proudly on the walls of this bar, as symbols of the "international proletarian revolution", as the owners call it.

The bar, named the "Sainte Catherine" (Canrillaise for Saint Catherine/Katherine) has become associated with the local radical left-wing movements, assembling orthodox metzists, ruanists, anarchists, flandinists, or even Xsampans communists. 

On the night between the 2nd and 3rd of May, witnesses reported to the police that a brawl had erupted at about 2.33 in the morning. During this night, following International Workers' Day on the 1st, was organised a concert to celebrate the date, attendance at the bar was higher than usual due to this. According to people present in the bar at that time, a group of around 10 men, dressed fully in black and hooded made their apparence at that moment.

These men, fully armed with baseball bats and other lethal weapons then charged at the bar, hitting and harassing anyone who was there. What followed was a 15-minute clash between members of the Orange Order (later identified by the police) and bar attendees such as members of the International Freedom Fighters before the Police intervened and broke up the confrontation, making 4 arrests of the black-clothed men and 3 arrests of bar attendees.

According to Middenhall Police Chief, Brake Huntsman, the "Sainte Catherine" bar has been closed until further notice, by fear of possible retailiation by either one of the groups, he has also deplored the presence of 3 injured, each taken to the St. John Medical Center and whose state is rapidly recovering. Chief Huntsman alongside Mayor Bryan of Middenhall lamented the "unusual" political violence and have vowed to "punish those responsible" accordingly to the law.

Middenriding Minister-President, George Radcliff (Labour) expressed his "vocal and intense" condemnation of the act and has vowed to remain "in touch" with Middenhall's local authorities in the resolution of this affair. In Fort William, central government spokesperson have stated that the government's recent law "will help to drastically reduce these criminal acts which terrify everyday Luthorians day and night."