The horrific attempted murder of a man in Belfast has sparked international outrage from major figures.  

Harrowing footage captured at around 10.30pm on Monday evening appeared to show a man, described by police as a 30-year-old asylum seeker who had been granted indefinite leave to remain in Northern Ireland, violently stabbing another man in the street. 

The video shows a man - named today as Hadi Alodid - standing astride a bloodied victim, holding a knife to his throat and his fist in the air. 

Police said a kitchen knife was recovered from the scene. 

The man, named by residents as Stephen Ogilvie, suffered severe knife wounds to his face, neck and back. 

In the wake of Monday night's attack and violent riots across the city on Tuesday, many across Europe and the US reacted with rage. 

Santiago Abascal, the leader of hard-right Spanish party Vox, said on social media: 'Europe is not condemned to passively coexist with those who stab, slit throats and rape in broad daylight every day.

'There is another path. There is another future. Total intolerance towards this barbarity, and immediate deportations.'

He added: 'That path will not be taken by the same leaders who have encouraged this invasion and who are more concerned with managing the public image of the executioners than protecting the security of their own citizens.'

Over in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, who heads up the right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV), shared video of the horrific incident with the caption: 'Please listen now. Open border policy is criminal. It is killing us.' 

Their anger was matched by US-based Elon Musk, CEO of social media platform X, who wrote in response to calls to protest across the UK following the attack: 'Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!'  

Ian Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News that the Belfast attack laid bare what he described as failures in Britain's immigration system.

'Britain's broken border and migration system has been put into stark relief once more with this tragic — and entirely avoidable — case,' Mendoza said. 

'This man should never ever have been in the UK, let alone been granted leave to remain. The Irish border is the soft underbelly for a process the British public has long since lost confidence in, as well as in those administering it politically. 

'Nothing short of a revolution in who we allow into the UK and how will satisfy a people fed up with false promises about immigration change.'