The phrase "a violent raid on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an aggressive or forceful attack on a place or group, often in a military or criminal context.
Example: "The news reported a violent raid on the suspected hideout of the gang last night."
Alternatives: "an aggressive assault on" or "a brutal attack on".
"If they are really serious," said one victim of a violent raid on an opposition party office in 1997, "then the police headquarters would be empty, because everyone was involved".
BANGKOK — Security forces in Myanmar mounted a violent raid on Thursday against Buddhist monks and villagers who have been protesting the expansion of a copper mine.
A "highly respected" tribal chief was arrested in a violent raid on his home, says the dossier, and "utterly humiliated when his genitals were exposed to the rest of the household, including the women".
Before Stonewall — a clash of protesters and the police after a violent raid on a Greenwich Village bar in June 1969 — the city was a gay destination, but certainly not one promoted by its officials, nor particularly welcomed by the wider public.
The Mallekoche Mapuche community accused the police of stealing their belongings during a violent raid on January 3. A month later, police detained Daniel Melinao, an indigenous leader who had also been arrested under dubious circumstances and held for a year in 2012.
They made headlines for a violent raid on a cafe that stayed open a half-hour after curfew and a campaign to get the district of Lhokseumawe where women were once told that they couldn't straddle a motorbike to ride it because it was too sexual to ban New Year's Eve celebrations, because the holiday was following the wrong calendar.
Last week, after anti-Communist rallies culminated in a violent raid of government buildings in Moldova, authorities arrested hundreds of participants and cracked down on high school and college classrooms across the country.
CAIRO — The security crackdown on Syria's coastal region tightened on Tuesday, with checkpoints blocking off access to the city of Baniyas and its outlying areas and a violent raid by government security forces on the nearby village of Bayda, local human rights advocates said.
He said: "It was a carefully planned and violent raid on his home to rob him of drugs and cash - it is likely others were involved as well". The court was told that some of the gang went through the front door while others broke in through the conservatory and kitchen at the rear of the house.
In Gardez, they interviewed survivors of that violent raid on the night of 12 February 2010.
The park had not been this full of palpable energy since the violent raid on Nov. 15th.
