(adds arraignment)

A Briton was slightly injured when he was hit by another Briton using a pointed instrument in a bar at St Paul’s Bay last night, the police said.

The injured man, 38, was the barman. He was injured by a 17-year-old at about 1.30 a.m. The barman is being treated at Mater Dei Hospital.

The boy was arraigned in court this afternoon and given an 18 month jail term suspended for four years after admitting to threating the bar owner and trying to stab him.

In other incidents last night, the police said that at about 12.30 a.m. they were called to an incident at St George’s Road, St Julians, where a 26-year-old man from the Ivory Coast was arguing with some club bouncers.

When the police intervened the man appeared to lose control and started shouting obscenities and tried to attack the police. He was promptly arrested.

Shortly after, a 25-year-old man from Eritrea was slightly injured in a fight with another Eritrean in the same street. Broken bottles were used in the fight. The injured man was treated at a health centre. The two live in Birkirkara and in the tent centre for migrants at Hal Far.

In yet another incident, near Marsa open centre for migrants, the police intervened when a Somali man who appeared drunk created a disturbance.

However when police officers tried to calm the situation, three other migrants tried to assault the policemen. The clothes worn by two of the migrants were blood stained, but when the police offered to call an ambulance, the migrants refused and instead threatened the officers. One of the men climbed on top of the police car and started spitting at the policemen.

The migrants were arrested and arraigned in court this afternoon.