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Pub stabbing "was premeditated" Stab victim 'tried to stop fight'
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A Dungiven councillor says the stabbing of a Polish man during a community relations event for foreign nationals at the weekend was premeditated. A Polish man was stabbed as he tried to break up a fight at a community relations event, according to one of the organisers.
The victim - who is in his mid-20s- is in a serious but stable condition in hospital. The victim - who is in his 20s- is in a serious but stable condition.
Another man - also believed to be Polish - was stabbed in the fight involving up to 30 people at a pub in the town on Saturday night.Another man - also believed to be Polish - was stabbed in the fight involving up to 30 people at a pub in the town on Saturday night.
Anne Brolly said other foreign nationals were behind the attack. Mairead McCormick of Glenshane Community Development said it was a symptom of a "knife-carrying culture".
"During this party we had a group of people from outside the borough, Latvians I believe and Romanians, who came and in a premeditated attack - it had to premeditated because they came with knives - pulled knives on the people in the party. "Unfortunately, those who were injured on Saturday night were trying to break up a brawl," she said.
"In all my time in Dungiven I never knew anybody to pull a knife on somebody else. There have been fights and rows of all kinds, but this is something that is very disturbing and worrying to the people of the town." "We have people of different nationalities come to these events all the time and everybody gets on great, there's absolutely no problem.
"It was just one minor incident that triggered this and unfortunately it has led to two men being hospitalised."
Sinn Fein councillor Anne Brolly claimed other foreign nationals were behind the attack.
"In all my time in Dungiven I never knew anybody to pull a knife on somebody else," she said.
"There have been fights and rows of all kinds, but this is something that is very disturbing and worrying to the people of the town."