Belfast Erupts After Attempted Beheading On a Public Street By Migrant

Violence is wrong. This is what happens when a government ignores its citizens, sacrifices their security, and leaves them feeling like strangers in their own country. No one is surprised by the rage its failures ultimately provoke.

BREAKING:

Rioters are breaking into migrant HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupation, a form of taxpayer-funded housing for asylum seekers) in Belfast and setting them ablaze.

It’s a difficult night for firefighters in Belfast with fires reported in several parts of the city. pic.twitter.com/lOlgBXzOH7

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 9, 2026

CBS:  Violent anti-immigration protests erupted in parts of Belfast on Tuesday evening with some masked demonstrators setting fire to a bus, cars, trash cans and homes. Far-right figures had called on social media for mass protests after a brutal stabbing attack the previous night in Northern Ireland’s capital.

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A graphic video of the incident, showing a man slashing another man in the head and neck with a knife, spread quickly online earlier in the day. The Police Service of Northern Ireland detained and charged a Sudanese man in his 30s with attempted murder, possession of a knife in a public place and making threats to kill.

The accused man entered Northern Ireland, a semi-autonomous region of the United Kingdom, after applying for asylum, and in 2023 he was granted a five-year U.K. visa. He is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday to face the charges.

The victim of the attack was taken to the hospital with serious injuries to his eyes, face and back, police said.

Despite calls for calm from the police and politicians from all major parties, dozens of fully masked protesters gathered in several places Tuesday evening and caused violent unrest, with one local lawmaker from Belfast calling it “a race-based pogrom.”

Northern Ireland is on fire tonight after yesterday’s attempted beheading of a local man by a Sudanese migrant.

Cars on fire can be seen rolling down hills in Belfast pic.twitter.com/atLFcZoRTy

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 9, 2026

Anti migrant riots in parts of Belfast last night. pic.twitter.com/mx6MZYbJ8J

— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) June 10, 2026

Related: BELFAST HORROR: Muslim Migrant Tries to Behead Man on Belfast Street (VIDEO)

Belfast burns as anger explodes over ‘asylum seeker knife attack’: Houses targeted by protesters pledging to ‘get the foreigners out’ after bus torched

By; Daily Mail, 9 June 2026:

Belfast went up in flames after furious protesters last night torched targets across the city in response to the brutal knife attack on its streets last night – defying government ministers’ calls for calm.

Ugly scenes have broken out, with reports of masked men clashing with police, kicking in doors to ‘get the foreigners out’, and setting up checkpoints to search cars for asylum seekers.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Michelle O’Neill, condemned the ‘outright thuggery’, saying that ‘groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice’.

Anti-immigrant unrest sprung up in several cities across the UK after Monday night’s attack. A 30-year-old man, described by police as a Sudanese asylum seeker who had been granted indefinite leave to remain, has been charged with attempted murder.

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Multiple houses were set on fire in Belfast, along with numerous vehicles, rubble piles and street barricades. These continued to burn as night fell, attended by a vast force of firecrews.

Dramatic scenes came after protesters pushed a flaming bin into a Glider bus on the Newtownards Road soon after crowds first began to gather, burning it to a cinder.

In the Lower Newtownards Road area in east Belfast, around 100 masked men made their way down the street kicking in doors and smashing windows, saying they were ‘getting the foreigners out’, the BBC reported.

It was also reported that groups of locals had set up checkpoints and were checking passing cars for foreign nationals.

Lendrick Street in east Belfast in engulfed in flames, with multiple cars and at least one house ablaze

Police vehicles have come under attack in some areas of the city from protesters hurling bricks and other projectiles.

Around 20 miles outside Belfast, in County Antrim, a Turkish barber shop was attacked, with its front door and windows smashed in.

Ms O’Neill said: ‘This has nothing to do with community. This is outright thuggery.

‘The attack in north Belfast was heinous and wrong. But 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.’

She added that racism, intimidation and violence are wrong wherever they occur.

‘There can be no excuse and no justification for these attacks tonight. No one wants to see this on our streets and I again appeal for calm,’ she said.

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly also urged calm, writing on social media: ‘I know all are horrified about what has happened. I know so many are angry and there are those who want to register a protest.

‘This is an appeal to act in an entirely peaceful way. Violence does not advance any cause, it damages it. Destroying things within your own community benefits no one.

‘Taking frustration at the evil actions of a person out on those who had no part in it is utterly wrong.’

Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) sought to quell the ‘sporadic pockets of disorder’, urging ‘everyone to remain calm, act responsibly, and avoid any activity that could place themselves or others at risk’.

The PSNI also issued a Police Dispersal Order and warned protesters that force may be used to protect public safety.

Northern Ireland’s public transport operator Translink responded to the bus fire by suspending all Metro, Glider, Ulsterbus and Goldliner services operating in and out of Belfast.

Peter McReynolds, Alliance party assembly member for East Belfast, said he was ‘disgusted’ at the ‘destruction and violence’.

A young man smiles at the camera in front of a burning barricade on Duncairn Gardens

The unrest came in response to a brutal knife attack on Belfast’s streets on Monday night, over which a 30-year-old Sudanese migrant has been charged with attempted murder

Tuesday’s demonstrations came after Tommy Robinson shared a list of 70 locations in towns and cities around the UK where protests have purportedly been planned – though he insisted ‘these are not my protests’ and said he is merely ‘passing on’ information.

Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe issued advice to those planning on taking to the streets, telling them: ‘Do NOT give Starmer what he wants… Stay calm. Keep your heads. Do NOT attack the police.’

With nerves running high on all sides, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insisted that more violence would be the ‘worst possible response’.

She told LBC Radio: ‘What we’re urging now is a period of calm.

‘I appreciate that people are horrified by what they have seen, but the worst possible response to that kind of violence would be further violence or disorder.’

First minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O’Neill said those who seek to inflame tensions, particularly on social media, ‘do not represent us’.

She urged people against conflating the knife attack with others from minority ethnic communities, saying: ‘We need to say no racism, no to hatred, no to sectarianism that is out there in our society.’

Labour ministers have been under pressure to provide ‘full transparency’ about how a Sudanese man, who was this evening charged over the attack, entered the country.