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Falkirk Asylum Hotel: Brick Thrown Through Window Following Protests Outside Scots Asylum Hotel
The brick attack targeted refugees at the Cladhan Hotel, following weeks of protests by far-right groups, and is under police investigation with no injuries reported.
- In the early hours of Tuesday, a brick smashed a window at the Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk, which houses asylum seekers; Police Scotland called at around 12.05am to investigate.
- Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures organised repeated rallies outside the hotel, including Sunday, attracting counter-protests from Stand Up to Racism Scotland and Falkirk Trades Union Council with on-street clashes.
- Stand Up to Racism and Falkirk For All said the brick attack was an attempt to intimidate refugees, while First Minister John Swinney said, `I absolutely deprecate the throwing of a brick at the window of the hotel.`
- No-One was injured in the attack, and Police Scotland said officers were called to Kemper Avenue, Falkirk, around 12.05am on Tuesday with an investigation ongoing.
- Tensions have been inflamed after MSPs at Holyrood debated immigration on Wednesday while opposition politicians warned SNP policies risk attracting thousands more asylum seekers, following Sadeq Nikzad's nine-year jail for rape.
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