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DUBLIN — Northern Ireland leaders appealed for calm Tuesday after police said a Sudanese man was arrested on suspicion of stabbing and seriously wounding a man in north Belfast.
Public fury over the episode — fanned by widespread sharing of social media posts showing parts of the attack and its aftermath — threatens to trigger renewed anti-immigrant intimidation along the lines previously experienced in Northern Ireland last summer, when dozens of newcomers were forced from their homes.
In London, Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the attack as “sickening.” He said his government has “absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.”
His secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, told the Commons he’d contacted the region’s police commander, Chief Constable Jon Boutcher, to discuss ways of deterring anti-immigrant violence.
