Jun 18, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
The violence of the past week has brought Northern Ireland to the global media stage (violence and intolerance are two of our best products!). Fuelled by an abhorrent attempted murder which was seized…
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i wouldn't say knife attack of course it turned out to be um on a horrendous um attempted murder and of course it was coming up by a 30 year old uh sudanese migrant of course the mutilation and the injuries uh were in themselves extremely horrific and also horrific uh was a video footage of uh this sudanese man that straddled on his victim um with a knife a blade in the victim's head and basically covered in blood So that's several nights of violence, primarily in Belfast, and it has to be said, racist violence.
when you consider the kind of the inquiry of the Nottingham attacks and the fallout from that, which basically, well, basically the fact that the assailant, the murderer himself, was not incarcerated earlier because of the skin colour and because some statutory bodies and some figures within those statutory bodies were frightened of being seen as racist, either as um say a collective themselves or individually and again um you know worried about their own careers and that's what it seemed it was okay uh to let this murderer um out um to you know essentially commit murder then you also had the the terrible and horrendous uh murder of the young lahari Nowak and the compounding was the police response to it, which could be seen as, I guess, taking the side of the murderer who himself was a Sikh.
So I suppose with that climate in mind, when the actual attempted murder occurred in North Belfast, it really lit the touch paper.
and possibly in the background and what was growing maybe in a kind of community Sanchez was having no faith in the judicial system um especially and then I suppose the default um political systems as well that politicians themselves have failed um they weren't listening to their people or they refused to listen to people or they think about it they know better than the the people the electorate And it's certainly had to grow a gulf, I guess, this attitude that the politicians aren't listening to us.
i wouldn't say knife attack of course it turned out to be um on a horrendous um attempted murder and of course it was coming up by a 30 year old uh sudanese migrant of course the mutilation and the injuries uh were in themselves extremely horrific and also horrific uh was a video footage of uh this sudanese man that straddled on his victim um with a knife a blade in the victim's head and basically covered in blood So that's several nights of violence, primarily in Belfast, and it has to be said, racist violence.
when you consider the kind of the inquiry of the Nottingham attacks and the fallout from that, which basically, well, basically the fact that the assailant, the murderer himself, was not incarcerated earlier because of the skin colour and because some statutory bodies and some figures within those statutory bodies were frightened of being seen as racist, either as um say a collective themselves or individually and again um you know worried about their own careers and that's what it seemed it was okay uh to let this murderer um out um to you know essentially commit murder then you also had the the terrible and horrendous uh murder of the young lahari Nowak and the compounding was the police response to it, which could be seen as, I guess, taking the side of the murderer who himself was a Sikh.
So I suppose with that climate in mind, when the actual attempted murder occurred in North Belfast, it really lit the touch paper.
and possibly in the background and what was growing maybe in a kind of community Sanchez was having no faith in the judicial system um especially and then I suppose the default um political systems as well that politicians themselves have failed um they weren't listening to their people or they refused to listen to people or they think about it they know better than the the people the electorate And it's certainly had to grow a gulf, I guess, this attitude that the politicians aren't listening to us.
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