LONDON, United Kingdom — Scottish police said Sunday that they had charged a 36-year-old man after a series of attacks in Edinburgh on Friday, which UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said appeared to have an anti-Muslim motive.

Five men sustained injuries in the attacks and three required hospital treatment for non-life-threatening injuries, police had previously said.

Videos on social media showed a half-naked, tattooed white man who appeared to be carrying a large weapon chasing an Asian man and then attempting to break his way into a restaurant, before later being handcuffed on the ground by police.

The BBC reported that the attacks appeared to have begun near a mosque in the west of the Scottish capital before continuing at other locations in the city.

In a brief written statement on Sunday morning, Police Scotland said a 36-year-old man had been charged and a report submitted to prosecutors, and that the man would appear in court in due course.

In a post on social media on Saturday, Starmer said the attacker “appears to be motivated by anti-Muslim hatred.”

That view was shared by the Muslim Council of Britain, which said the incident was “a direct consequence of political rhetoric that demonizes entire communities.”

The Scottish Association of Mosques also blamed “language that portrays migrants,........

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