Reuters and AFP

The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 5, 2024, p. 30

London. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a Labour Party member, yesterday condemned what he called far-right bullyingafter five days of violent anti-immigration protests that culminated in an attack on a hotel, and warned: I assure you that you will regret having participated in this mess.adding that his government will do everything necessary to bring these thugs to justice.

Violent protests have erupted in towns and cities across Britain after three girls were killed in a knife attack at a children’s dance class in Southport, north-west England, last week.

Last week’s killings were exploited by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups, who spread false information that the suspected attacker was an immigrant and a radical Islamist. Police said the suspect was born in the UK and were not treating it as an incident. terrorist.

Hundreds of protesters gathered yesterday outside a hotel near Rotherham in northern England that the Home Secretary said was housing asylum seekers.

Protesters, many wearing masks and balaclavas, threw bricks at police and smashed hotel windows, a Reuters witness said, then set fire to nearby containers and pushed them into the building.

In the city of Middlesbrough, hundreds of protesters also clashed with riot police, and gathered outside another hotel in Aldershot.

Anti-racism protesters were seen in both Rotherham and the north-western city of Lancaster, with police keeping the two groups apart.

More than 90 people were arrested on Saturday following clashes, vandalism and looting at far-right protests in Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Blackpool and Hull, as well as Belfast (Northern Ireland), leaving several police officers injured.

Starmer said residents and staff are in Absolute terror by marauding bands in Rotherham.

At least two mosques were attacked.