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Police Deploy Water Cannons Amid Anti-Immigrant Protests and Fires in Belfast Following Stabbing Incident

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In Belfast, police deployed water cannons to break up a second night of unrest sparked by a knife attack involving a Sudanese refugee, dispersing dozens of far‑right protesters. The victim’s family called for calm and denounced the surge of anti‑immigrant violence in the city.

  1. GB
    Keir Starmer
    Labour Party
    1. There is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere.
    2. The scenes in Belfast last night were shocking and completely unacceptable.
  2. GB
    Hilary Benn
    Labour Party
    1. Above all for those who were intimidated, burned out of their houses by masked thugs on the basis of the color of their skin.
  3. GB
    Jon Boutcher
    1. These weren't just families from ethnic minority communities, these were families from across communities that were caught up in this vile behavior last night.
    2. These idiots didn't just target ethnic minority groups… they targeted society.
  4. GB
    Naomi Long
    1. If you're driving people from their homes based on nothing but the color of their skin, you can't dress that up any other way, it's racism, and those bad faith actors need to take a step back.
  5. AT
    Volker Türk
    United Nations
    1. Dehumanisation of whole groups within a society is totally unacceptable and frankly despicable.
  6. GB
    Michelle O'Neill
    Sinn Féin
    1. Groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice.
  7. GB
    Tommy Robinson
    English Defence League
    1. The whole of the United Kingdom is hitting the streets tonight at 7pm following yet another invader attack on our people.
  8. GB
    Stephen Ogilvie
    1. We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country… We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility.
    2. We want to make it absolutely clear that overnight unrest is not welcome, and peaceful protest is the only way forward.

sources

  1. 1.Le Monde
  2. 2.Al Jazeera
  3. 3.NPR
  4. 4.DW News
  5. 5.The Japan Times
  6. 6.The New York Times
  7. 7.ABC News
  8. 8.The Times of India
  9. 9.Agence France-Presse
  10. 10.Associated Press
  11. 11.BBC News
  12. 12.Reuters

perspectives

  1. 1.British Politics
  2. 2.BREXIT
  3. 3.Stabbings
  4. 4.Northern Ireland conflict

countries

  1. 1.SudanSD
  2. 2.United KingdomGB
  3. 3.IrelandIE
  4. 4.FranceFR
  5. 5.CongoCG

organizations

  1. 1.Police Service of Northern Ireland
  2. 2.Democratic Unionist Party
  3. 3.Catholic Church
  4. 4.British Home Office
  5. 5.National Health Service
  6. 6.Sikhs
  7. 7.Sinn Féin
  8. 8.Amnesty International
  9. 9.Anaka Women's Collective
  10. 10.Belfast Magistrates' Court
  11. 11.Labour Party
  12. 12.Reform UK

persons

  1. 1.Hadi Alodid
  2. 2.Stephen OgilvieGB
  3. 3.Tommy RobinsonGB
  4. 4.Keir StarmerGB
  5. 5.Elon MuskUS
  6. 6.Jon BoutcherGB
  7. 7.Anna TurleyGB
  8. 8.Anselme ShimaGB
  9. 9.Emma Little-Pengelly
  10. 10.Gavin RobinsonGB
  11. 11.Geraldine Hanna
  12. 12.Henry Nowak

technicals

  1. 1.Protestantism
  2. 2.Islam
  3. 3.Common Travel Area
Police Deploy Water Cannons Amid Anti-Immigrant Protests and Fires in Belfast Following Stabbing Incident