The protest was organised in response to a knife attack in the city on Tuesday night, in which a 30-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder.

Anti-immigration protesters torched buildings and vehicles in Belfast and blocked roads, a day after a stabbing allegedly by a Sudanese refugee, captured in a graphic video that shocked the country.

Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson, of Police Service Northern Ireland, said: “This is a deeply concerning assault and I have declared this a critical incident. We have commenced an investigatio...