Thousands of British flags, some provided with the words’Stop the boats“On Saturday, the streets of London on Saturday red, white and blue colored during a large anti-immigration protest in the British capital. The demonstration, that Unite the Kingdom (‘Unit the Kingdom’) was called, attracted more than 100,000 protesters. That said the British police in return for The Guardian. A counter -demonstration elsewhere in the city, ‘stand against racism’, had about five thousand activists.
Those one hundred thousand people were much more than initially expected. On Saturday morning, anti-extremism group estimated Hope Not Hate That the protest would only attract 40,000 participants. The police were also surprised by the large crowd and shared in a message on X that the crowd was too large for the original approved route of the Mars.
Although the demonstration was largely peaceful, the police, who was present in large numbers, had to deal with aggression. For example, agents were kicked and beaten at several locations on the edge of the unit-itch-rich protest, British media say. Bottles, torches and other projectiles were also thrown. In total, nine people were arrested. In addition, persons have been “identified who have committed a crime,” the police said A message on X. “We will find them and they will be tackled by the police, even if that is not possible today.”
At the end of the afternoon, supporters of the anti-immigration protest also threw stuff into the counter-protesters. Several activists tried to break through the barriers that separate the groups. The police said AP news agency to use violence to control the crowd.
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk attended the demonstration via a video connection. He spoke with the extreme right-wing activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, the initiator of the protest. According to Musk, the British parliament must immediately dissolve. “We don’t have four more years, or when the next elections are too, it’s too long. Something has to be done, the parliament has to be dissolved and a new mood must take place,” said Musk.
Robinson had already planned a ‘unit-it-in-case-rich’ protest last October, but was not able to do so because he was imprisoned for contempt from the court. He had violated an order of the Supreme Court from 2021 that forbidden him to repeat defamatory accusations against a Syrian refugee who had successfully sued him. Robinson was previously in prison for mistreatment and mortgage fraud.