Belfast riots: Elon Musk under fire for stoking anti-immigrant violence after stabbing

LONDON — The condemnation over anti-immigrant riots in Northern Ireland was being matched by another growing outrage in Britain on Thursday: that the world’s richest person was inciting the violence

LONDON — The condemnation over anti-immigrant riots in Northern Ireland was being matched by another growing outrage in Britain on Thursday: that the world’s richest person was inciting the violence.

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A second night of unrest on the streets of Belfast saw masked men once again torch houses and vehicles in a hunt for anyone they believed to be an immigrant. A government minister labeled the violence “racist thuggery.”

The rioters say they are motivated by the stabbing of a local man, Stephen Ogilvie, who remains in a coma after losing one eye in the knife attack that also caused deep wounds to his face and neck. Hadi Alodid, a 30-year-old Sudanese man, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder, but did not enter a plea when he appeared in court Wednesday.