{"id":497807,"date":"2026-06-13T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/497807\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:08:08","slug":"psni-says-number-of-arrests-over-disorder-in-northern-ireland-reaches-23-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/497807\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI says number of arrests over disorder in Northern Ireland reaches 23 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The number of people arrested over disorder in Northern Ireland sparked by a stabbing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/belfast\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/belfast\">Belfast <\/a>has risen to 23, the police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni\/\">PSNI <\/a>said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/courts\/2026\/06\/12\/man-and-woman-in-court-over-disorder-following-belfast-knife-attack\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/courts\/2026\/06\/12\/man-and-woman-in-court-over-disorder-following-belfast-knife-attack\/\">17 people have been charged to court,<\/a> with an 18-year-old expected to appear before magistrates on Saturday charged with common law riot and attempted criminal damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Some five people have been bailed and one individual was reported to the Public Prosecution Service, the force added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Disorder broke out in response to a knife attack on Monday night in which Stephen Ogilvie suffered significant injuries, including the loss of his left eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An antiracism rally is taking place outside Belfast City Hall on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The organisation United Against Racism, who planned the \u201cTogether Against Racism\u201d event, posted on Instagram: \u201cThe levels of racism we have seen on our streets is intolerable. Racist pogroms can never be allowed to riot through our streets again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The group posted \u201cprotest safety tips\u201d to its social media account, informing attendees to \u201cstay calm, focused, and peaceful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2026\/06\/13\/kieran-connell-how-did-an-attack-in-a-nationalist-part-of-belfast-lead-to-rioting-in-loyalist-areas\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How did an attack in a nationalist part of Belfast lead to rioting in loyalist areas?Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Hadi Alodid (30), appeared in court on Wednesday charged with attempted murder over Monday\u2019s knife attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Sudanese national entered Northern Ireland across the Irish border by bus in February 2023, having flown to Dublin from Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He then claimed asylum upon arrival and was granted leave to remain in the UK until 2028. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of people arrested over disorder in Northern Ireland sparked by a stabbing in Belfast has risen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4501,61,60,43,21754],"class_list":["post-497807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-belfast","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}