Political leaders and police in Northern Ireland were urging restraint on Wednesday morning after a night of violence roiled the country in the wake of a brutal stabbing attack in Belfast.
Firefighters and emergency responders escorted immigrant families from their homes that had been set alight in Belfast on Tuesday night, as burning cars blazed on the street. A city bus was set on fire by young men on Newtownards Road in east Belfast, and garbage cans engulfed in flames were used to create roadblocks elsewhere in the city.
The unrest came after authorities charged Hadi Alodid, 30-year-old Sudanese man, with attempted murder in the stabbing attack Monday night, prompting calls from anti-immigrant activists for protest amid heightened tensions in the United Kingdom over immigration.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement issued late Tuesday that “sporadic pockets of disorder” had broken out in a number of locations across Northern Ireland.
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Michelle O’Neill, the First Minister of Northern Ireland, appealed for calm, saying there could be “no excuse and no justification for these attacks,” in a statement issued early on Wednesday.
“Groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice. This has nothing to do with community. This is outright thuggery,” she wrote. She called the earlier stabbing attack in north Belfast “heinous and wrong,” but added that “there are dangerous attempts to exploit that to target and attack innocent people who are simply trying to live, work and raise their families here.”
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Northern Ireland is the least ethnically diverse part of the United Kingdom, with just approximately 3.4 percent of residents from minority ethnic backgrounds.
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