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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn Political correspondent

HISTORICAL FACTS: How belfast knife attack became the latest far right trigger event - Caught on Camera

Protesters at a demonstration outside a hotel holding anti-immigration signs
An anti-immigration protest outside a hotel in Southampton, after a man from Sudan was arrested over the knife attack in Belfast. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Filmed at about 10.30pm on Monday night on a Belfast street, bystanders captured the moment when a man, believed to be a Sudanese asylum seeker, wielded a knife over another man he had pinned to the ground.

By Tuesday, the clip had become the latest transnational “trigger event” – in the mould of the Southport killings and the case of the murdered 18-year-old student Henry Nowak – as far-right activists from Britain and beyond seized on it.

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