UK minister says violence in Northern Ireland is racist thuggery
Police used water cannon and baton rounds as rioters attacked ethnic minorities, burned homes and targeted a hotel housing asylum seekers, officials said.
- Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, condemned two days of violent unrest in Belfast as "racist thuggery," as police deployed water cannon on Thursday for a second consecutive night to disperse rioters.
- Tuesday's riots, involving torched homes and vehicles, followed a Monday knife attack in Belfast for which a Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder, occurring amid heightened tensions over Britain's immigration policy.
- Online coordination allowed protesters to target immigration businesses and ethnic minority nurses, with Kate Nicholl, a Northern Ireland assembly politician, noting police patrolled areas named on a "hit list" while rioters marched demanding "foreigners out."
- Deep trauma now affects the province as Benn noted the genuine sense of fear among the ethnic minority community, with reports of people being stopped in their cars to be asked their nationality.
- Northern Ireland has now faced anti-immigration violence for three summers in a row, recalling the "Troubles," three decades of violence between mainly Catholic Irish nationalists and predominantly Protestant pro-British "loyalists.
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El Periódico
elcorreogallego.esThis week’s unrest in Belfast has once again revealed the social unrest in the United Kingdom after nearly two decades marked by austerity, Brexit, the pandemic and the rising cost of living. Hundreds of people have faced the police and attacked businesses and immigrant homes after a Sudanese asylum seeker’s knife attack on a man in the street last Monday. Violent mobilizations are becoming commonplace in the country and are a sign of the penetr…
Bostäder har satts i brand och vandaliserats under veckans upplopp i Belfast. Polisen i Northern Ireland ska i flera månader ha varnats om att det i högerextrema kretsar spridits en
Fyra dagar har gått sedan den brutala knivattacken i Belfast i Northern Ireland där en man skadades allvarligt. Sedan det framkom att den messänkta gärningsmannen har utländsk härkomst har stora främlingsfientliga protester agt rum i olika delar av land.
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INTELLINEWSA knife attack carried out by a Sudanese refugee and instrumentalized by the far right has provoked two nights of anti-immigrant violence in Belfast. The inhabitants take their breath again but fear that such events will happen again. The associations denounce a campaign of intimidation and terror.
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