Belfast is up in flames after furious protestors 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
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