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A member of Parliament in the United Kingdom has called for authorities to come to terms with the negative effects of mass immigration after a Sudanese man who claimed asylum allegedly attempted to behead a man in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Monday night.
Gavin Robinson, a member of Parliament with the Democratic Unionist Party, told the House of Commons on Tuesday that the suspect was on a five-year visa and warned the attack “will have profound implications for community cohesion in this country,” according to the BBC.
Robinson called the attack “chilling” and “medieval” and urged the government to realize that “uncontrolled immigration needs to end.”
“The perpetrator living in the U.K. under a five-year visa needs to be convicted and deported on the first flight out on a one-way ticket,” he said, while also urging for calm.
Graphic video widely circulating online shows the attacker, confirmed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on Tuesday to be a 30-year-old Sudanese man, straddling the body of a man in his 40s while hacking at his bloodied face and neck with a kitchen knife.
Intervening bystanders, including one using a hurling stick, tackled the attacker and held him until police arrived, the video shows.
PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said that the suspect, who was arrested and charged Tuesday with attempted murder, is believed to have arrived in Belfast by bus in February 2023 after traveling from Sudan to Paris, and then from Paris to Dublin, according to The Telegraph.
Boutcher said the suspect had been given leave to remain the U.K. until 2028 after claiming asylum in September 2023.
The incident, which reportedly left the victim with “serious injuries” to his face, eyes, neck and back, has shaken the U.K., where major outlets such as the BBC and The Telegraph have been running live blogs detailing the latest developments in the story.
The attack prompted outrage across Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K., with many social media accounts urging “protest against mass immigration into their communities,” according to CBS News.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned the attack as “sickening,” “horrific” and “abhorrent,” adding that he has “absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets.”
Northern Ireland’s five main political parties said in a joint statement that they are “united” in their condemnation of the “horrific incident,” according to the BBC.
The backlash to the attempted beheading in Belfast comes in the wake of large protests in the U.K. last week over new revelations regarding the death of Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old white Englishman who was fatally stabbed last December in Southampton by Vickrum Digwa, a 23-year-old Sikh.
New police bodycam footage showed police handcuffing Nowak as he lay dying at the scene after Digwa falsely claimed Nowak had knocked his turban off.
Before he becomes unresponsive, Nowak can be heard saying “I can’t breathe” and “I’ve been stabbed” multiple times, to which an officer replies, “I don’t think you have, mate.” Digwa has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years.
British-born Catholic cleric Calvin Robinson, who settled in the United States in 2024 and has been outspoken about the demographic crisis in his native country, has posted repeatedly on X about both stories.
“Mass deportation is the loving, moderate position,” Robinson said in response to the attack in Belfast.
In an interview with The Christian Post in 2024, Robinson warned the U.K. is on the brink of civil war, and placed its simmering tensions in the context of a wider spiritual decline in the country since World War I.
In response to a recent story that white British children have become a minority at schools in their own capital, Robinson wrote on Tuesday: “London has been completely taken over. Established in 43/47 A.D., London is one of the oldest and greatest cities. Formally the capital city since 1066. Lost in a manner of decades thanks to consecutive Conservative & Labour governments. We do not hate our government enough.”
