It comes after the 37-year-old, known as Danny Tommo to his supporters, was filmed appearing to slash a boat in the English Channel with a rescue crew member on board.
The suspect, of no fixed abode, was remanded into custody to appear at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Hampshire Police said in a statement: "The charges follow an allegation made to police that damage had been caused to a boat in the Channel whilst an emergency responder was on board."
He was remanded in custody to appear at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on Friday morning.
A couple hundred people, largely wearing black, gathered outside a police investigation centre in Basingstoke on Thursday evening, believing that Thomas was inside.
They arrived just before 6.30pm and stood on the road outside the investigation centre chanting "free DT".
Most were not masked, but some could be seen wearing face coverings.
After news of his charge was announced, the crowd dispersed peacefully.
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The vessel was carrying around 100 people as well as cargo, said Norris Mulongoyi, the provincial transport minister for Tanganyika province.
He said 49 people have been rescued and a search is ongoing for the remaining passengers.
"The vessel, travelling from Kigoma, Tanzania, to the city of Kalemie in the Congo's Tanganyika province, capsized near the village of Mapera," Mr Mulongoyi said.
The cause of the incident on Thursday was not immediately clear.
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Lake Tanganyika is the world's biggest freshwater lake and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal.
Boating tragedies are common in the central African country, with overcrowded vessels, late-night travelling and a shortage of life jackets often blamed for the high number of deaths.
In July, a wooden boat transporting students back from state exams sank in central DRC, killing at least 20 people, authorities said.
Poor safety standards and lack of infrastructure in remote parts of the country have contributed to the hundreds killed in boat disasters in recent years.
In a statement, the council said all of its non-teaching staff will be dismissed and reintroduced with new contracts, with details to be sent to individuals concerned next week.
The change for 23,000 workers will take place on New Year's Day, and comes after talks with GMB, UNITE and Unison collapsed.
A Unison organiser said that the council's decision represented "bosses trying to bully (staff) with arbitrary deadlines".
Glasgow City Council said that GMB and UNITE agreed to ballot members on an offer it said "would have seen a substantial injection of cash to fund additional back pay and take the possibility of dismissals off the table" in talks over ending a discriminatory pay structure.
However, the council said Unison withdrew its support for the measure and "provided no substantive reason for this".
Colin Edgar, council director of communications, said that the authority "has gone as far as it can" with the offer, and said, "it beggars belief that (Unison) would betray their own members in this way".
He added that if all three unions balloted their members on the proposed pay offer, "we will of course withdraw these notices" of dismissal, but said if not, "then staff will be reengaged on the terms set out in the recently agreed City Administration Committee report which do not include the enhancements".
"We value our staff and we want their service with us to continue," he said. "This is purely precautionary, but it could and should have been avoided."
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In response, Unison Scotland regional organiser Mandy McDowall said: "Glasgow City Council staff are not going to be bounced into a shoddy deal by bosses trying to bully them with arbitrary deadlines.
"Clearly both sides need to keep talking to resolve matters fairly. The council's decision to dismiss workers helps nobody.
"Glasgow City Council risks being labelled a pariah employer if it refuses to negotiate in good faith with its staff."
Ms McDowall added that the council "didn't have to issue dismissal letters today, they chose to" - and said: "Council employees deserve a fair deal and Unison will continue to work with their managers to secure one."
Unite industrial officer Graham McNabb also said: "Glasgow City Council must remove direct threats to our membership in its proposed new pay and grading structure, whether it is through cuts to terms and conditions, or the scandalous threat of fire and rehire tactics.
"If they go down this reckless path, then it will be met with the full force of Unite."
GMB has not yet commented publicly on the matter.
Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra said: "It beggars belief that the SNP council is threatening to railroad through fire and rehire before it is made illegal in this country by the UK Labour government.
"It may not break the letter of the law, but it certainly breaks the spirit of it. It's a despicable way to treat working people. It's straight out the Tory playbook.
"All parties need to get round the table and hammer out a deal. Working people should never be threatened like this again"
In a new threat assessment, Denmark's defence intelligence service said there is "a low but growing risk" that Moscow may carry out isolated long-range strikes using missiles or drones on NATO infrastructure supporting Ukraine.
Russia could also deploy a limited number of soldiers into a NATO border area, possibly under the pretext of protecting Russian minorities, service chief Thomas Ahrenkiel warned.
"The aim is not to take over the country, but to divide NATO," he said.
NATO members that border Russia include Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
And the report said Moscow is likely to ramp up its hybrid war against the West in the coming months.
It comes as a top Polish official said a blaze at a Starlink station that engulfed its power system and backup generator on Wednesday evening was an act of sabotage aimed at disrupting internet services, including for Ukraine's military.
Poland's deputy prime minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said that "many signs suggest this aligns with Russia's new doctrine of attack".
His country has been on heightened alert for acts of sabotage since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in 2022.
NATO's top commander has said the US would continue to provide "critical but more limited capabilities" to the alliance, as Europeans take up a greater role in defending the continent.
US Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich - the Supreme Allied Commander Europe - said a string of recent incidents, including an attempted drone strike at Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport and a Russian ship firing flares in the direction of a Danish military helicopter, was "concerning".
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The Danish defence intelligence service claimed Russia would engage in more frequent attacks against the West and NATO "with greater consequences for the countries targeted than in the past".
"A limited military attack would be a desperate move on Russia's part and, like the intensified hybrid attacks, could potentially take place in the coming months," it said.
The Danish Resilience Agency has said Russia would likely try to carry out cyberattacks against Denmark, with the agency also raising its threat level.
General Grynkewich said NATO is stepping up intelligence-sharing in response to a wave of sabotage and other incidents apparently linked to Russia.
However, the alliance should be "calm and confident" that it can handle any threat posed by Moscow, he added.
Moscow has repeatedly denied any involvement in hybrid warfare, sabotage operations in countries of the alliance, or plotting any confrontation.
The Russian embassy in Denmark on Thursday rejected the assessment that there is a heightened risk that Moscow might launch a limited military attack against one or several NATO countries that border Russia.
It said this was unsupported by credible evidence and accused the West, led by Denmark, of driving up tensions over Ukraine.
"Our persistent warnings about the destructiveness of such an approach are being ignored," the embassy said.
Sky News can reveal that English football's top flight and the top domestic leagues in Germany, Italy and Spain will publish a collective statement demanding greater consultation on key issues such as the global football calendar.
The statement was still in the process of being formally agreed between the quartet of domestic leagues on Thursday afternoon and it was unclear whether it would specifically call for Mr Infantino to stand down.
One football insider said: "The Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and Serie A are going to issue a joint statement insisting that FIFA must reform to have more independent oversight and give stakeholders, including leagues, a meaningful role in decision-making."
The source said it followed a legal complaint filed nearly two years ago by the European Leagues Association - including the quartet behind Friday's planned statement - to the EU about FIFA's handling of the International Match Calendar.
The Premier League, along with others in Europe, have been at loggerheads with FIFA for sometime over so-called 'calendar creep', with the potential for more frequent Club World Cups and expanded national team competitions causing alarm among the game's most important domestic leagues.
Earlier this week, Sky News reported that Mr Infantino, who is said to be increasingly confident about surviving in his job when he comes up for re-election next year, had written to football chiefs across the globe saying he was open to talks about reforming the organisation.
Mr Infantino has been lambasted by football industry executives and associations over his proposal to sell a 20% stake in FIFA's commercial rights, including the World Cup, to private investors - including the brother of President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
The FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal was abandoned in July after a maelstrom of global opposition and threats to boycott tournaments organised by FIFA.
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UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation, and CONCACAF - which represents countries in North and Central America and the Caribbean - called for changes to FIFA's leadership.
In a letter seen by Sky News this week, Mr Infantino wrote to the heads of all its 211 member nations and his FIFA Council, saying he will ask the council whether it wants to launch an "independent external review of FIFA's current governance framework for major strategic initiatives and recommend potential improvements".
In the note, he also said he would offer to hold talks with confederations, member associations and other stakeholders on strengthening FIFA's decision-making.
The proposals would examine who has a say in major initiatives, including the respective roles of the president, bureau, council and congress, and how to improve transparency and accountability.
Promising not to pre-judge discussions, he said proposals could be discussed when the council meets next month.
His responsibility, he said, is to serve "all 211 member associations fairly, regardless of their position on any individual matter", adding that "strong institutions do not wait for their systems to fail before considering how they can be improved".
But there was no mention of reviewing his position. Instead, the letter affirmed his intention to remain FIFA president, arguing his responsibilities are "larger than any individual proposal or disagreement".
The Premier League declined to comment on Thursday.