Wave of anti-immigrant violence erupts after Belfast stabbing

A man from Sudan is due in a Belfast court on an attempted murder charge over a stabbing attack that triggered anti-immigrant violence in Northern Ireland.

Homes and vehicles were set ablaze as anti-immigrant violence erupted across several parts of Northern Ireland overnight following a knife attack that left a man seriously injured.

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Masked men set fires at several homes they believed to house immigrants in the capital, Belfast, and police were pelted with objects as hundreds of protesters took to the streets after video of the knife attack went viral. A Sudanese man has been charged with attempted murder.

Yara Navrotska, a Ukrainian living in the city, said it was “terrifying,” adding that her front door “caught fire a bit” after her neighbor’s house was set ablaze. “I was with my dog at the house, so I had to, like, escape through the back door,” she told Reuters.