Man Charged After Suspected Anti-Muslim Attacks Across Edinburgh

[andy06shake]

 

Police Scotland said a man was charged after a series of attacks in Edinburgh on Friday night that are being treated as potential anti-Muslim hate crimes.

Counter-terrorism officers were brought in to investigate the attacks in which five people were injured.

A 36-year-old white Scottish man was arrested on Friday.

The force added late on Saturday night: “A 36-year-old man has been charged in connection with a number of incidents which took place in Edinburgh on Friday, 19 June, 2026. A report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal, and the individual will appear at court in due course.”

Police said there was no further threat to the public.

Officers were called to the Sighthill area of the city, where two men were injured, at about 8.50pm on Friday. They were taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary by ambulance.

The Scottish Association of Mosques said two worshippers were attacked in a park after leaving the Broomhouse mosque.

Reports then came in to police about incidents around shops in the west and north of the city. The force said that during this period three other men were allegedly attacked in the Telford Road and Leith Walk area.

Around 9.30pm, police equipped with Tasers confronted a suspect and, although a Taser was not discharged, the man was detained.

Posts on social media appeared to show a shirtless man carrying a long weapon roaming a street and battering a restaurant door in the Scottish capital.

Another video appeared to show the same man on the ground shouting about “protecting the country” while being held by a police officer.

Police said that five men, two aged 22, and others aged 24, 27 and 39, sustained a range of injuries and three needed hospital treatment though none of the injuries were life-threatening.

Keir Starmer posted on X: “Absolutely appalling. No one should face violence on our streets.

“The suspect appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred. I will not tolerate this – he will face the full force of the law.“My thoughts are with those who are injured and I thank the police and the emergency services for their response.”

Omar Afzal, director of public affairs for the Scottish Association of Mosques, told the Scotsman: “There is a profound sense of shock, alarm and anger within Muslim communities across Scotland today.

“These latest attacks are deeply disturbing. However, they do not exist in a vacuum. For years, Muslim communities have warned about the consequences of anti-Muslim hatred becoming normalised in public discourse.

When prejudice is left unchallenged, it creates an environment in which some individuals feel emboldened to act on that hatred.”

Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, said he was “deeply concerned” by the incidents. “There is no place for violence, racism or intolerance in our country,” he added.

The anti-Islamophobia non-profit Muslim Engagement and Development urged police to “treat this as what the evidence indicates: Islamophobic, far-right terror”.

Assistant chief constable Catriona Paton said: “I want to send a clear message of support to all our communities that there is no place for racism or faith-based hate in a Scotland which is at its best when we stand together.

“Officers responded to multiple reports of a fast-moving sequence of events across Edinburgh before arresting a man and public safety was our priority.

“Extensive work is ongoing to establish all the circumstances.

“We are being supported by counter-terrorism policing and working under the direction of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.”

Police closed off Leith Walk on Friday evening as the incidents unfolded.

A major incident public portal has been set up to encourage members of the public to submit information directly to officers.

This is what happens when they choose to sit and watch the likes of GB NEWS all day long and believe the lies.

Violence like this is horrendous because all it does is harm innocent people.

And all it serves to achieve is to create fear in the community.

Absolutely shocking turn of events, where luckily nobody was killed.

Authorities will fling the book at him, and so they should.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...-edinburgh
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xg6lwz5jo

[chr0naut]

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This is what happens when they choose to sit and watch the likes of GB NEWS all day long and believe the lies.

Violence like this is horrendous because all it does is harm innocent people.

And all it serves to achieve is to create fear in the community.

Absolutely shocking turn of events, where luckily nobody was killed.

Authorities will fling the book at him, and so they should.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...-edinburgh
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2xg6lwz5jo

Sadly, more people will click on an outrageous lie or a stupid headline, reading only a few words and then navigating away after reading the first sentence, than those who check if the facts aren't contradictory and who see through the screaming headline with only an empty article.

And clicks=$ so the 'media sources' post all sorts of mindless garbage just to get the $.

This sort of bad journalism radicalizes the gullible.

Ditto for social media circle-jerk groups who rev them selves up over collaborative fictions.

[andy06shake]

Sadly, more people will click on an outrageous lie or a stupid headline, reading only a few words and then navigating away after reading the first sentence, than those who check if the facts aren't contradictory and who see through the screaming headline with only an empty article.

Sadly thats also very true chr0naut.

The fact is, attention is cheap. 

As to the crazy in question, not really any doubt about his motivations or his guilt. 

It's always when the sun comes out...

And thats as true up here as it is down south.

[worldstarcountry]

At least he is finally incenced and outraged about one type of violence. Did he make statements like these with such righteously furious indignation  with some of the more recent horrific random acts of violence? Like the Siek murder of that poor teenager, or the toddler thrown into a crocodile pin? I just need to see the chart of indignation that says when the leader is finally about to be enraged and incensed about a particular type of violence characterized in one way, and not often in other contexts and characterizations. its like he picks and chooses which types of violent behavior to be righteously furious about and others to be a bit more dismissive and not as quick to establish and proliferate conclusions on.

Reeks of motives and intent underlying that mind of his, or perhaps the will of another? Makes me feel some type of way!

[andy06shake]

At least he is finally incenced and outraged about one type of violence. Did he make statements like these with such righteously furious indignation  with some of the more recent horrific random acts of violence? Like the Siek murder of that poor teenager, or the toddler thrown into a crocodile pin? I just need to see the chart of indignation that says when the leader is finally about to be enraged and incensed about a particular type of violence characterized in one way, and not often in other contexts and characterizations. its like he picks and chooses which types of violent behavior to be righteously furious about and others to be a bit more dismissive and not as quick to establish and proliferate conclusions on.

Reeks of motives and intent underlying that mind of his, or perhaps the will of another? Makes me feel some type of way!

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I don't really think anyone cares about Keir Starmer's outrage anymore. 

With any luck, he will be gone soon, and replaced...

The man is disliked from one end of the island to the other, and thats me being generous. 

As to what this reeks of, it seems to me that would be a lunatic jumping around the streets with bladed weapons.

Chopping people up because he does not like their religion or the colour of their skin.

It reeks of racial and religious hatred in spades...




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[worldstarcountry]

Chopping people up because he does not like their religion or the colour of their skin.

It reeks of racial and religious hatred in spades...




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Yes yes, these are indeed facts.