Residents evacuate as Belfast protesters set homes and vehicles on fire as disorder erupts after knife attack
Police said the suspect was charged as hundreds of anti-immigration protesters blocked roads and set a bus ablaze after the stabbing video spread online.
- Violence and arson erupted across Belfast on Tuesday night, sparking widespread property destruction after anti-immigration activists mobilized online in response to a brutal stabbing incident.
- The unrest began after a 30-year-old Sudanese national was charged with attempted murder, following a graphic, viral video of a knife attack in North Belfast that left a man in his 40s hospitalized with severe eye, face, and back wounds.
- Emergency teams had to evacuate residents from their homes on Lendrick Street, where rioters set several vehicles on fire, causing high-intensity flames to spread dangerously close to nearby residential properties.
- Masked rioters hijacked and burned a public Glider bus in East Belfast, pushing ablaze commercial trash bins directly into the vehicle on Newtownards Road and forcing the transport operator, Translink, to suspend all bus and train services.
- Northern Ireland's political leaders issued a unified plea for calm, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Stormont's five main political parties condemning both the "sickening" knife attack and the lawless riots, warning citizens not to be manipulated by faceless agitators online.
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Sudanese asylum seeker, beheading attempt, anti-immigration protests: What triggered tensions in Belfast
UK leaders have appealed for calm after the arrest of a Sudanese asylum seeker accused of attempting to murder a man in a brutal knife attack in Belfast triggered anti-immigration protests and unrest. A 30-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder, possession of a knife in a public place and making threats to kill following the attack, which police and prosecutors described as an "attempted beheading", Suspect held, victim critical The…
Anti-immigrant protests flare up across Belfast after knife attack | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
BELFAST >> Hundreds of anti-immigrant protesters took to the streets of Belfast on Tuesday, with some setting vehicles alight, after police charged a Sudanese man over a knife attack that left one person with serious neck and head wounds.
Figures from the far right and Elon Musk encouraged the demonstrators.
An open-road stabbing attack has stirred up the Northern Irish city of Belfast. A video of the crime has been shared many times. The alleged perpetrator is from Sudan. This has now triggered violent protests against immigration.
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