Fue celebración tanto como llamada a la acción. Fue reflexión tanto como chorro de energía, pogos y rave. Ante una abarrotada sala La Riviera —1.800 personas, no había entradas disponibles desde meses antes— el trío norilandés Kneecap, un conjunto creado por dos alumnos gamberros y su profesor de gaélico irlandés en 2018, sacó partido de todo su repertorio, una furiosa combinación de rap, techno clásico, cultura rave y unas letras con mensaje que comparten rabia con el hip hop francés nacido en las banlieues de sus grandes urbes y al rock-punk clásico euskera. El cóctel funcionó; va a ser difícil vivir en los próximos meses otra actuación con tanta felicidad asalvajada.
Hadi Alodid refused legal representation and made no reply to charges which were put put to him through an Arabic interpreter as he appeared in court charged with attempted murder following the Belfast knife attack, the Press Association reports.
The 30-year-old, with an address at Duncairn Avenue in Belfast, appeared before the city’s magistrates’ court on Wednesday morning.
He is charged with the attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie on Monday, with threatening to kill an NHS radiographer on the same day and with the possession of a knife.
Los líderes políticos y religiosos de Irlanda del Norte han podido comprobar en las primeras horas de este miércoles, cuando todavía no se han apagado los rescoldos de una prolongada noche de violencia en Belfast y otras partes del territorio, que sus llamadas a la calma han sido inútiles. Coches, autobuses, cabinas telefónicas y contenedores incendiados. Viviendas donde supuestamente residían inmigrantes, o simplemente personas de alguna minoría étnica, completamente en llamas después de que grupos de violentos las escogieran como objetivos que debían ser “liberados”.
Homes were set on fire in Belfast. Video screenshot/Sky News
Widespread anti-immigration riots broke out across the UK on Tuesday following a particularly violent knife attack in Northern Ireland. The unrest was triggered by news that a thirty-year-old Sudanese national had been charged with attempted murder. Prime Minister Keir Starmer strongly condemned the initial attack, labeling it both “horrific” and “sickening,” while stating he has zero tolerance for such violence.
Escalation of violence in Northern Ireland
BREAKING: A bus has been set on fire in Belfast amid protests over the attempted beheading of a man pic.twitter.com/FX8maCMalK
The unrest was most intense in Northern Ireland, where masked mobs caused extensive property damage on Tuesday evening:
Belfast: Riots resulted in multiple homes, a bus, cars, and street barricades being set on fire. Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill condemned the rioters, stating that groups of masked men were “burning families out of their homes” in acts of “outright thuggery.”
Newtownabbey & Kilkeel: Blazes spread to neighboring towns, where verified social media footage showed protesters setting several vehicles ablaze.
Wider UK: Smaller, sporadic anti-immigration protests and clashes with police were also reported in other major UK cities, including London, Glasgow, and Bangor.
A large group rioters is attacking migrant HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupation, a form of taxpayer-funded housing for asylum seekers) in Belfast. pic.twitter.com/o9yjynArd4
Social media fueling the anti-immigration riots in the UK
The catalyst for the riots was a viral video filmed by a witness during Monday night’s attack in North Belfast. The footage depicts a man pinning a bloodied victim to the ground and repeatedly stabbing him before bystanders and police intervened. Far-right and anti-immigration accounts widely circulated the footage online to mobilize public protests.
Further update from police sources, a property has been set alight in the Lendrick Street area of Belfast.
First Minister O’Neill warned that extremist groups are dangerously exploiting a heinous crime to target and intimidate innocent people who are just trying to live their lives.
The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Monday, June 8 on Canard Avenue in North Belfast. A man in his forties suffered severe wounds to his face, back, and eyes. He remains hospitalized in serious condition. Police recovered a kitchen knife at the scene.
A thirty-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder. Authorities confirmed he had traveled from Paris to Dublin before entering Northern Ireland in February 2023. He claimed asylum upon arrival and was granted legal residency in the UK until 2028.
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
On a residential street draped in loyalist flags near Belfast’s Shankill Road, the masked men approached a house with a boarded-up window and a security camera stationed outside.
As a woman from an ethnic minority background looked down from an upstairs window, some of the men rushed the front door and broke it down. With the air thick with smoke from fireworks, they attacked the downstairs windows with bricks.
A Sudanese man has been arrested after an attempted "beheading" in Belfast last night that left a man in his 40s with serious injuries in a "critical" condition.
Badenoch said, after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, it was right that people wanted to ensure this did not happen again.
It led to the Macpherson report, she said.
[It] wanted to put right what went wrong with policing in the 1990s.
However, in attempting to do so, it also enshrined a principle which I believe is wrong that a racist incident is racist if it is perceived as racist by the victim or any other person.
Equality law, properly designed, should protect us all in the same way. It should be a shield, not a sword.
It should protect people from discrimination. It should protect people from being treated differently because of their race, sex, religion, sexuality, disability or age.
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