Far-right protesters smashed hotel windows and set fire to rubbish bins in northern England today, as a wave of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim protests continued over the killing of three little girls at a dance school last week.
Anti-immigrant and anti-Islam groups seized on rumors after the Southport attack that the attacker was an illegal immigrant and a Muslim radical. The police announced that the 17-year-old who has been arrested was born in Britain and, according to press reports, comes from a Christian family.
Nevertheless, violent riots broke out on Saturday in several cities including Liverpool, Bristol and Manchester and dozens of arrests were made as shops and businesses were vandalized and looted and many police officers were injured. Keir Starmer’s government has warned it will not tolerate violence and will support the police by providing them with the resources needed to deal with the situation.
Today, hundreds of protesters gathered near a hotel where asylum seekers were staying, near Rotherham, in the north of England. The crowd threw bricks at the police and broke several windows of the hotel, and then set garbage cans on fire. Several dozen protesters had also gathered at another hotel in Aldershot, southern England.
In both Rotherham and the north-west city of Lancaster, anti-racist counter-demonstrations were also organized and police tried to intervene between the two groups to prevent them from clashing.
As protests began in Bolton, near Manchester, police announced they had been given wider powers to deal with any anti-social behaviour. Police Inspector Natasha Evans said police would increase their presence to prevent any incidents.
A demonstration also began in Middlesbrough amid a tense atmosphere, Sky News reported.
Starmer, a former prosecutor who became prime minister a month ago after Labor won the general election, has said the riots were the result of deliberate far-right actions coordinated by “a group of individuals who are certainly inclined towards violence” and that it was not for a legitimate protest.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said on Saturday that those involved in criminal riots would face “the toughest possible sanctions”.
“Those involved in the riots will ‘regret it’,” Prime Minister Starmer warns
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned today that the perpetrators of the riots that have rocked the United Kingdom for several days will “regret” taking part in them, as anti-immigration demonstrations in various cities continued for a fourth day.
“I guarantee you that you would regret taking part in these riots,” he said at a brief press conference in London. He added that his government “will do whatever it takes to bring these vagabonds to justice.”
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