A 46-YEAR-OLD man is being questioned after footage circulating on social media showed a bin being thrown at loyalist bandsmen during a Twelfth of July march in south Belfast.
Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of crimes including assault and disorderly behaviour following an altercation on Agincourt Avenue this morning.
The Twelfth of July march, organised by Ballynafeigh district orange lodge, was processing from Ormeau Road, along Agincourt Avenue, when the row happened.
The video showed a man emerge from a house with an Irish tricolour flying from the first-floor window. He then threw a small recycling bin at members of Bangor Protestant Boys Flute Band.
Bandsmen chased the man back into the property, which is understood to house several flats, and banged on the door.
A man in the band put down his drum, picked up a wheelie bin and smashed it against the front window of the property. Police officers later appeared to remove the wheelie bin as evidence.
Several orangemen were seen attempting to restore order.
Police arrived on the scene within seconds.
PSNI Superintendent Darrin Jones said officers were aware of the footage and had arrested a 46-year-old man.
"Detectives are currently investigating other potential offences and persons," he said.
Parades in the Ormeau area of south Belfast remain tense decades after it was at the centre of violence and bitter disputes in the 1990s and noughties.
In 2013, the Order Order said Ballynafeigh district was pelted with eggs and bottles at Agincourt Avenue.
The attack came during several nights of rioting across Belfast around that year's Twelfth demonstrations.
Ballynafeigh lodge has not been allowed to march down lower Ormeau for many years, due to strong opposition from residents.
The lodge had applied again this year to march down Ormeau Road, along Ormeau Avenue, towards Belfast City Hall.
However, the Parades Commission noted that "should the parade process the entirety of its notified route, there will be an adverse effect on community relations and a potential for public disorder".
The parade was again prohibited from processing along lower Ormeau to cross Ormeau Bridge at its junction with Annadale Embankment.
