Anti-immigration protest encouraged by Musk sets fire to bus and car in Belfast

[muriel_volestrangler]

Tommy Robinson, the far-right, anti-migrant activist and provocateur, has been using his X account to publicise a list of places where he is calling for “mass protest” in Northern Ireland. Within the last hour, his list has been retweeted approvingly by Elon Musk, who owns X and has 240m followers on the platform.

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The Home Office has confirmed the suspect in the Belfast stabbing incident is a Sudanese national with leave to remain in the UK until 2028, the Press Association reports.

Following the stabbing on Monday night, which left a man with significant injuries to his eyes, the Home Office said the suspect had entered the UK in 2023 and was granted refugee status the same year.

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Protesters have set fire to a Glider bus on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast as disorder flared at an anti-immigration demonstration organised in response to Monday night’s stabbing attack in the city.

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Around three hundred people, mostly dressed in dark colours, had gathered on the Shankhill Road by 8pm.

“Can we all say the Lord’s Prayer for the victim of this crime?” a woman said, through a megaphone with the crowd joining in to recite the prayer, ending with clapping and cheering.

The crowd then set off marching through the streets of west Belfast. Soon after, windows were put through and groups of men balaclavas rushed into a house, attacking the windows with bricks, while the air was thick with smoke from fireworks.

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Soon after, a car was set alight, on the street draped in loyalist flags, where walls were lined painted with graffiti saying “local homes for local people.”

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Ah, bigotry and religion. A marriage made in hell.