Officers said shots, petrol bombs, fireworks, bricks, stones and smoke bombs were fired as violence broke out at 9pm in the Lower Newtownards Road and Short Strand areas.
Petrol bombs, fireworks, stones, and bottles were thrown at police after they tried to move rioters away from a parade route.
Over the next few days the Police Service of Northern Ireland formed a security cordon between the loyalists and the Short Strand with riot police officers coming under constant bombardment with petrol bombs, fireworks, pipe bombs and at one stage gunshots which left a press photographer wounded.
Television footage showed anti-government protesters throwing petrol bombs, fireworks and rocks at riot police, and setting fire to piles of tyres to prevent officers from entering the Maidan, while hundreds of riot police used water cannons on advancing protesters in sub-zero temperatures.
Petrol and smoke bombs, fireworks, bricks and stones were thrown by an estimated 500 men in masks and crash helmets as violence broke out at about 9pm on Monday in the Lower Newtownards Road and Short Strand area of the city, a mainly nationalist area.
Petrol and smoke bombs, fireworks, bricks and stones were thrown by about 500 men in masks and crash helmets as violence broke out at about 9pm in the Lower Newtownards Road and Short Strand area of the city, a mainly nationalist area.
On Saturday night, officers were attacked with petrol bombs, fireworks, laser pens and stones in the Woodvale area.
Missiles including petrol bombs, fireworks, stones and bottles were thrown, while a van was hijacked and pushed at police lines at the traditional flashpoint, where loyalist marchers and bands were due to pass close to a Catholic area.
Though hundreds of people have continued to protest peacefully in an encampment on Independence Square, a smaller group of hardcore radicals effectively hijacked the movement by attacking police with petrol bombs, fireworks and cobblestones.
Also found in his bedroom were weedkiller, firelighters, three tennis balls with diagrams on how to convert them into shrapnel bombs, firework powder, electrical timers and detonators.
