The Police Service of Northern Ireland said on 9 June that the injured man remained in a serious condition in hospital after an attempted murder in north Belfast. PSNI said the man in custody was Sudanese, correcting earlier online claims that he was Somalian.
Deutsche Welle, citing AFP and Reuters, reported that the suspect appeared at Belfast Magistrates Court charged with attempted murder, possessing a bladed article in public and making threats to kill. Al Jazeera reported that the subsequent unrest included attacks on police and property after footage of the stabbing circulated online.
The accused has not been convicted. The charges are allegations before the court, and the criminal case is separate from the public-order investigation into those who damaged property or attacked police during the unrest.
Al Jazeera reported that police used water cannon during a second night of disorder on Wednesday, after dozens of people gathered and clashed with officers. It also reported that the family of the stabbing victim appealed for calm and condemned the violence directed at immigrant communities.
Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill said, according to Deutsche Welle, that masked men had burned families out of their homes. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the original attack horrific and said there was no tolerance for street violence, Al Jazeera reported.
The local impact has extended beyond the streets where disorder occurred. The Guardian reported on 12 June that Belfast residents described disruption to hospital access, fear among immigrant residents and anger that the violence had been framed by some as protest rather than intimidation.
One Irish-Polish resident quoted by the Guardian said friends who are immigrants or people of colour faced a daily reality of prejudice and that the unrest had intensified a sense of alienation in the city. Another resident said the disorder had delayed a hospital admission for a relative with Parkinson's disease, according to the same report.