Closed shops, lowered metal curtains, pubs with empty terraces: Belfast looked like a ghost town on Thursday morning. “They have canceled all public transport and schools are closing early,” says a 51-year-old mother at a bus stop who wishes to remain anonymous, like all the people interviewed. “We have the impression of having returned to the period of the Troubles (conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, from 1968 to 1998, Editor’s note) where everything stopped because of the riots. »
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