US Edition'Volatile': Londoners and asylum seekers on edge due to protests
Protests linked to asylum seeker housing have intensified tensions and led to arrests, with concerns over local safety and community divisions amid record migrant arrivals.
- Protests erupted near a London hotel sheltering around 600 asylum seekers after an Ethiopian asylum seeker was arrested and found guilty of sexual assault.
- The protests highlight growing tensions as Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration faces challenges in controlling the surge of migrants arriving by small boats and accommodating the large number of asylum seekers.
- The hotel entrance is blocked by barricades and plywood, while protesters painted St George's flag colors, and some locals expressed concern over community problems and safety fears.
- A 45-year-old Pakistani worker displayed an England flag to protect his business and immigrant employees, stating he respects the flag and asylum seekers have posed no problems.
- The situation feels volatile with scuffles leading to an officer punched and four arrests, suggesting asylum seeker hotels may face further protests and local divisions may persist.
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This Saturday, extreme right-wing activist Tommy Robinson is organizing a big march in London to defend "freedom of expression", which gives rise to fear among asylum seekers staying in some hotels.
In the British capital, several hotels hosting asylum seekers have been targeted at anti-immigration demonstrations, now raising the fear of those who live there, but also of some residents. ...
‘Volatile’: Londoners and asylum seekers on edge due to protests
Near London's historic heart, steel barricades and plywood boards block the entrance to a hotel housing some 600 asylum seekers that has recently been targeted by protests. "I feel unsafe because the people, they really think we are (the) enemy," an asylum seeker living in the Thistle Barbican Hotel told AFP. The man, who is
London - In the British capital, several hotels hosting asylum seekers have been targeted at anti-immigration demonstrations, now causing fear of those who live there, but also of some residents. The entrance to Thistle Barbican Hotel, which houses some 600 asylum seekers in the centre of the capital, is blocked by steel barriers and wooden boards. "I don't feel safe because people think we are their enemies," says one of them at AFP, preferring…
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