Belfast ’Pogroms’ Fuelled by Anti-Migrant Accounts Online
Police charged a Sudanese man with attempted murder after the stabbing, while rioters torched at least 10 homes and forced families to flee.
- On Tuesday, June 9, racist mobs in Belfast set fire to homes and vehicles, specifically targeting non-white residents and migrants following a stabbing incident the previous day.
- The violence followed the Monday stabbing of Stephen Ogilvie, who remains hospitalized with serious injuries, by Hadi Alodid, a 30-year-old Sudanese man charged with attempted murder.
- Far-Right accounts amplified footage of the attack online, fueling disorder that prompted the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service to attend 62 incidents using 21 fire appliances.
- Britain's media regulator Ofcom urged platforms to limit posts inciting violence on Wednesday, while Democratic Unionist Party politicians faced criticism for rhetoric linking immigration to the unrest.
- The Committee on the Administration of Justice , a Belfast-based human rights group, warned last year that social media was fanning flames for race-related violence in Northern Ireland, where similar riots occurred in 2024.
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Belfast ’pogroms’ fuelled by anti-migrant accounts online
Harrowing footage of a Belfast knife attack exploited and distorted by fundamentalist and far-right accounts in Britain and abroad, helping to fuel pogroms against migrants and Sudanese overnight which authorities feared could re-ignite later Wednesday. The 54-second clip, filmed by an as-yet unidentified onlooker, was posted on X late Monday by far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known by his self-adopted moniker Tommy Robinson. It…
Far-right pogrom burns out immigrant families in Belfast
The family of stabbing victim Stephen Ogilvie defended “migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country” and insisted, “We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility.”
At least 27 people were left homeless after yesterday's incidents where hooded men set houses on fire - The Ogilvy family thanked those who intervened to protect Steven
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