“Be careful who you ask,” warn people in Belfast on the street where the Sudanese man lived

(from our Belfast correspondent)

Duncairn Avenue is located north of the center of Belfast, right next to Kinnaird Avenue, where Monday’s attack took place. In the vicinity of these streets, for example, there is the Thorndale Family Center social facility, which is managed by the Salvation Army organization, the Girdwood Community Hub community and sports center or The Duncairn community art center.

“Be careful who you ask,” a woman with short hair and wearing sunglasses told Novinka. Like all other respondents, she refused to introduce herself. But she said that she lives next to Duncairn Avenue. “There are people living here that you don’t want to run into,” she added.

A brown-haired young man in a pink sweatshirt gave Novinka a similar warning. But he was more specific. “Radical loyalists live here. They are racists. Don’t ask them anything and certainly don’t try to discuss anything with them,” he said. Loyalists are mainly Protestants who support Northern Ireland remaining in the United Kingdom. Some radical representatives or groups from their ranks participate in protests against migration.

As soon as the young man had finished, out of the blue an elderly woman came running from the adjacent street. She told Novinká that journalists have nothing to do here and that they should mind their own business. “Get out of here, we don’t want you here,” she let herself be heard. “As I said, you have to be careful here,” the young man responded to the surprising situation.

It turned out that the woman was the wife of the man with whom Fairpress had spoken a few minutes earlier. “You talked to my husband, he already told you everything,” said the woman angrily. The husband told the editors that drugs are sold in the vicinity of Duncairn Avenue and Kinnaird Avenue and that he is certain that the Sudanese man’s attack on Monday was caused precisely because of drugs.

“The authorities don’t talk about it. They’ll say it in a few years, if at all. But I know what’s behind it. Drugs. I’m telling you. Drugs are sold here and they were definitely involved,” the man believed.

The police do not really talk about drugs in connection with the case. However, as the local newspaper Belfast Telegraph reported on Thursday, Stephen Ogilvie, a 44-year-old man who was brutally attacked on Monday evening by a 30-year-old Sudanese Hadi Alodid, was not the first victim of an attack.

In 2001, he was tortured by drug dealer David McLeave in Livingston, Scotland. Ogilvie, who comes from Northern Ireland and not Scotland, lived in Scotland at the time. McLeave gave him liquid ecstasy, also known as GHB, which renders people deeply unconscious within minutes. After McLeave fell asleep, he undressed her, poured cologne on her and set her on fire. The man woke up when his head was on fire, flames were also in his crotch. McLeave received 14 years in prison for this.

Monday’s attack occurred around 10:30 p.m. local time (11:30 p.m. CET). Ogilvie only miraculously survived. But he lost an eye, he also has numerous stab wounds in the area of ​​the neck, face and back.