Council leader and Labour councillor Jane Meagher has condemned disorder in Edinburgh linked to a stabbing in Belfast.
Demonstrations, involving threatening behaviour and disruption, formed in Edinburgh last Tuesday after a man was stabbed in Belfast.
Ms Meagher has put forward a motion to next week’s full council meeting criticising the disorder.
In it, she writes the council should condemn the ‘disorder and threatening behaviour’ seen across the city after the stabbing attack on June 8.
She adds the council should express its support for the victim of the attack, and should ‘stand in solidarity’ with anyone affected by the events.
Further, she said she wants to see the council “[commend] those residents who continue to demonstrate the spirit of community cohesion, tolerance, resilience, and solidarity that has long characterised our city.”
The disorder took place alongside demonstrations in several other cities and violent riots in Belfast, and appeared to be linked to the attacker’s race and immigration status.
Some demonstrators in Edinburgh carried banners and flags endorsing British nationalism and restrictions on migration.
A number blocked Princes Street for a short time, though police said no arrests were made.
At one demonstration near St Andrew Square, some demonstrators carried flags reading ‘stop the boats, stop the benefits’, while one wore a red hand of Ulster flag.
A man believed to be Sudanese was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the “brutal” knife attack in Belfast on Monday.
Scottish man Stephen Ogilvie lost his left eye and suffered deep cuts to his head, face and back in the stabbing.
By Joseph Sullivan Local Democracy Reporter
