On Saturday there was a struggle between demonstrators and police in the center of London. The authorities detained at least nine people after they forcibly responded to police efforts to maintain order during a large -scale assembly organized by the far -right activist Tommy Robinson and concomitant minor anti -nemonstrations. According to AFP and AP reports, TASR reports this.
- In London there was a struggle between demonstrators and police.
- The Assembly was organized by Tommy Robinson along with anti -Imonian.
- The police deployed more than 1,000 police officers to maintain order.
- In the evening, the victims of aggression were demonstrators.
- Non -raising against immigrants affects political protests.
Since late morning, crowds of people were collected in English and British flags in Westminster and its surroundings. More than 100,000 people visited the “Unite The Kingdom” event, and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known under the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, promoted it as “the greatest freedom of speech”. Representatives of the far right from all over Europe and North America performed at the gatherings. “The silent majority will no longer be silent,” Robinson told the crowd. “Today is the beginning of the cultural revolution,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, approximately 5,000 people also participated in the anti -Imonian “Stand Up To Racism” (Stand against racism), while the London metropolitan police deployed about 1,000 cops to keep the rival groups apart.
The marches were mostly calm, but the evening fans of the “Unite The Kingdom” movement began throwing objects in anti -monitors and trying to get to the barriers to separate both groups.
The police tried to keep order, and the demonstrators attacked their fists, kicked them and throwing bottles, the metropolitan police said. “We are still witnessing a considerable aggression against police officers by” Unite The Kingdom “demonstrators,” The police said on the X platform, and at least nine people were detained, but the police stressed that it identified several other offenders who would be responsible for their actions.
Demonstrations and anti -Nonmonstrations are held in the country at a time of growing hostility towards immigrantswhile in public opinion polls, the right -wing populist Party of the Reform UK leads Brexit. Protestants often focus on hotels where asylum seekers are accommodatedwrites AFP.
Forty -two -year -old Robinson, who founded the extreme right -wing English defense league (EDL) in 2009, was repeatedly sentenced for disrupting public order and contempt for the court. It is also accused of inciting racially motivated riots that shook the country in 2024. Robinson denies these accusations and declares that Britain is currently hostile to freedom of expression.
