How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’
The rapid spread of footage shows how social media is pivotal in enabling far-right agitators to mobilise internationallyFilmed 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…
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