{"id":128024,"date":"2026-06-21T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=128024"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:36:46","slug":"man-charged-over-suspected-anti-muslim-attacks-in-uks-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/128024\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over suspected anti-Muslim attacks in UK&#8217;s Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Web desk(National Times)- Scottish authorities said on Saturday they charged a man in connection with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2009523\">\u00a0attacks<\/a>\u00a0in Edinburgh that wounded five people with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying the suspect \u201cappears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police Scotland said officers had arrested a 36-year-old white Scottish man and there was \u201cno further threat to the public\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA 36-year-old man has been charged in connection with a number of incidents which took place in Edinburgh on Friday, June 19, 2026,\u201d police said late on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal, and the individual will appear at court in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Footage posted online showed a bare-chested man, believed to be the suspect, roaming the streets of the Scottish capital with a large weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A police statement said they received multiple emergency calls late on Friday from people reporting \u201cviolent attacks including threats, robbery and vandalism across Edinburgh, with five men injured\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victims, two aged 22, and others aged 24, 27, and 39, sustained various injuries, police said. Three were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the statement said, adding the incident is being investigated by the counter-terrorism unit and other police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politicians in London and Scotland condemned the incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAbsolutely appalling,\u201d Starmer said on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe suspect appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred. I will not tolerate this \u2014 he will face the full force of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scotland\u2019s First Minister John Swinney said he was \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d in a post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no place for violence, racism or intolerance in our country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2009681\/man-charged-over-suspected-anti-muslim-attacks-in-uks-edinburgh#should-concern-everyone\"><\/a>\u2018Should concern everyone\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the Scottish Association of Mosques and the anti-Islamophobia non-profit Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) said several of the victims were Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mend noted the alleged footage of the arrested man circulating online also showed him shouting about \u201cprotecting the country\u201d from Muslims, accompanied by expletive-filled language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organisation urged police to \u201ctreat this as what the evidence indicates: Islamophobic, far-right terror\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mosques association noted: \u201cIn recent days we have seen calls for anti-migrant protests circulating online, alongside increasingly aggressive rhetoric directed at minority communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese developments should concern everyone, regardless of faith or background.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident comes as immigration and diversity in the UK takes the spotlight, with claims that far-right agitators are fuelling racist sentiment, after a number of reported high-profile incidents in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Northern Irish capital Belfast&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2007215\">experienced<\/a>&nbsp;two nights of disorder last week after a knife attack, allegedly perpetrated by a Sudanese refugee, was captured on camera and went viral online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were also violent skirmishes between protesters and police the previous week in Southampton, in southern England, over the handling of the murder of young white student Henry Nowak by a British Sikh man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detailing Friday night\u2019s incidents, Police Scotland said two men were initially injured in a west Edinburgh suburb and taken to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>BBC<\/em>&nbsp;said it understood the attacks began near a mosque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three other men were subsequently attacked elsewhere, suffering different injuries, before officers confronted and arrested the suspect, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk(National Times)- Scottish authorities said on Saturday they charged a man in connection with\u00a0attacks\u00a0in Edinburgh that wounded five people with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying the suspect \u201cappears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred\u201d. 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