UK far-right mob attacking hotel housing asylum seekers

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Police in a north England town are struggling to hold back a mob of far-right activists who are seeking to break into a hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers, as riots continued across parts of the ******* Kingdom.

The unrest was sparked after a stabbing rampage at a dance class last week that left three ****** ***** and several wounded.

Footage from Sky News showed a line of police officers with shields facing a barrage of missiles as they sought to prevent the rioters from entering the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Rotherham on Sunday.

A small ***** was also visible while windows in the hotel were smashed.

More demonstrations are expected to take place around the country, with many counter-demonstrators also set to make their presence felt.

On Saturday, far-right activists faced off with anti-racism protesters across the ***, with violent scenes playing out in locations across the ***, from Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, to Liverpool in the northwest of England and Bristol in the west.

Further arrests are likely as police scour CCTV, social media and body-worn camera footage.

In just one incident on Saturday, Merseyside Police said about 300 people were involved in violent disorder in Liverpool, which saw a community facility set on *****.

The Spellow Lane Library Hub, which was opened last year to provide support for one of the most deprived communities in the country, suffered severe damage to the ground floor.

Police said rioters tried to prevent firefighters from accessing the *****, throwing a missile at the ***** engine and breaking the rear window of the cab.

Police have also warned that widespread security measures, with thousands of officers deployed, mean that other ******* may not be fully investigated.

“We’re seeing officers that are being pulled from day-to-day policing,” Tiffany ****** from the Police Federation of England and Wales told the BBC.

“But while that’s happening, the communities that are out there that are having incidents against them — victims of ****** — unfortunately, their ******* are not being investigated.”

The ********* erupted earlier this week, ostensibly in protest of Monday’s stabbing ******* in Southport.

A 17-year-old male has been arrested.

False rumours spread online that the young man was a ******* and an immigrant, fuelling anger among far-right supporters.

Suspects under 18 are usually not named in the ***, but Judge Andrew Menary ordered Axeel Rudakubana, born in Wales to Rwandan parents, to be identified, in part to stop the spread of misinformation.

Rudakubana has been charged with three counts of *******, and 10 counts of attempted *******.

Police said many of the actions are being organised online by shadowy far-right groups, who are mobilising support online with phrases like “enough is enough,” “save our kids” and “stop the boats”.

They are tapping into concerns about the scale of immigration in the country, in particular the tens of thousands of migrants arriving in small boats from France across the English Channel.

Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, has blamed the ********* on “far-right hatred” and vowed to end the mayhem.

He said police across the *** would be given more resources to stop “a breakdown in law and order on our streets.”

Policing minister Diana Johnson told the BBC that there is “no need” to bring in the army to help police in their efforts to confront the *********.

“The police have made it very clear that they have all the resources they need at the moment,” she said.

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