Disruptions occurred for a second consecutive night yesterday in Belfast,<\/b> after a knife attack for which a Sudanese refugee was charged.<\/p>\n
Police used a water cannon to disperse the crowd protesters in Belfast, where more than a hundred people gathered in various parts of the city, in some cases peacefully.<\/p>\n
The situation was tense from the start of the evening, however, on a street in Glengormley, in the north of the Northern Irish capital, where a significant police force<\/b> was deployed, Agence France-Presse noted.<\/p>\n
Protesters hurled objects, bricks and glass bottles, at law enforcement officers and set at least one rubbish bin on fire, police said.<\/b><\/p>\n
The police used water jets to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n
There was no violence in Belfast city centre, unlike yesterday, when riots against immigrants broke out after a knife attack in Belfast on Monday night.<\/p>\n
The victim of that attack, Steven Ogilvy<\/b>, lost an eye. He is being treated in a stable condition, his family clarified yesterday, Wednesday, evening, in a statement released by police in which the family said they were “disgusted” by the scenes of violence that had unfolded the previous day.<\/b><\/p>\n
These anti-immigration riots were described as “shocking” by Prime Minister Kir Starmer<\/b> and Northern Ireland police announced the mobilisation of additional forces.<\/p>\n
Reinforcements from the rest of the UK are expected to arrive today.<\/p>\n
Calls for protests had been made by far-right figures, notably activist Tommy Robinson – his real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – and US billionaire Ilon Musk.<\/b><\/p>\n
Despite calls for calm, the atmosphere was highly charged last night in Belfast, where many shops and restaurants remained closed and the city centre streets were deserted, Agence France-Presse found.<\/p>\n
Graffiti of an Islamophobic nature has been written on walls and metal shutters of shops in the district where a bus was torched yesterday.<\/b><\/p>\n
Residents interviewed by Agence France-Presse said they were shocked.<\/p>\n
The violence erupted after a video of the knife attack on Monday went viral on social media, showing the attacker sitting on a man lying on his stomach and bleeding, and beating him.<\/p>\n
Authorities have denounced the role of social media and accused some of inciting anger through the Internet. The media regulator Ofcom<\/b> warned the platforms by reminding them of their legal obligations.<\/p>\n
Police also warned that publishing the addresses of foreign nationals on social media could “constitute a criminal offence”.<\/p>\n
Northern Ireland’s Home Secretary Naomi Long<\/b> blamed those on social media for “instrumentalising the legitimate fear people feel in the face of events”, denouncing the “racism” behind the violence.<\/p>\n
The suspected perpetrator of the attack, Hadi Alondid<\/b>, a 30-year-old Sudanese man, appeared before a judge in Belfast yesterday morning. He was mainly charged with attempted murder, and he refused to be represented by a lawyer and was accompanied by an Arabic-speaking translator.<\/p>\n
At the end of the hearing, he remained in custody until his next court appearance, scheduled for July 8.<\/p>\n
His motives remain unclear, but police have at this stage ruled out the possibility that this was a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n
Hadi Allodide, who arrived in Northern Ireland in 2023, had refugee status and a residence permit valid until 2028, according to the Home Office.<\/p>\n
He arrived in the UK from Ireland, having previously gone to Paris.<\/p>\n
Personalities of Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK or Restore Britain parties, led by Rupert Lowe<\/b>, have questioned the immigration policies of the Labour government and its Conservative predecessors.<\/p>\n
Bloody anti-immigration protests had rocked Northern Ireland mostly in June 2025 and the summer of 2024, as well as other parts of the U.K.<\/p>\n
Charges were brought against three people after violence in Glasgow, Scotland<\/b>, the night before last, Tuesday, in which people were “attacked because of the colour of their skin,” according to police. Worshippers were forced to lock themselves inside the mosque as a security measure.<\/p>\n
In Southampton<\/b>, in south England<\/b>, a demonstration was held a week ago, during which violence occurred, to denounce the local police’s handling of the December killing of a white student, Henry Novak, by a young Sikh boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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