Disorder in Belfast ‘stoked by those who would struggle to find the city on a map’

Northern Ireland’s justice minister says online ‘bad faith actors’ have incited racism in city after knife attack

The disorder in Belfast was fuelled by people online who would have struggled to find the city on a map before a recent stabbing attack, a senior Northern Ireland minister has said.

Naomi Long, the minister of justice of Northern Ireland and leader of the Alliance party, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that “bad faith actors” had incited racism in the city.