LONDON: The UK govt said on Tuesday that 6,000 specialist police were ready to deal with far-right rioting after another night of destructive troubles across cities. There has been a week of nightly riots in various cities since three children were killed in a mass stabbing.
On Monday, six more were arrested and several police officers injured when they were attacked by rioters hurling bricks and fireworks in Plymouth, southern England.
Officers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, were attacked as rioters attempted to set fire to a shop owned by a foreign national. Police said a man in his 30s was seriously assaulted and that they are treating the incident as a racially motivated hate crime.
A group of men who gathered in Birmingham to counter a rumoured far-right demonstration, forced a Sky News reporter off air shouting: “Free Palestine”.
She was then followed by a man in a balaclava holding a knife. Another reporter said he was chased by mem bers of the group “with what looked like a weapon”, while police said there had also been incidents of criminal damage to a pub and a car.
Unrest broke out last Tuesday after three children were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport.
Justice minister Heidi Alexander told BBC Radio 4 that the govt had freed up an extra 500 prison places to accommodate those engaged in violence. She also said 6,000 specialist police officers have been drafted to deal with the violence. PM Starmer again sought to reassure the nation that action was being taken.
Mobs threw bricks and flares, attacked police, burnt and looted shops, smashed the windows of cars and homes and targeted at least two hotels housing asylum seekers at the weekend. The National Police Chiefs’ Council said Monday that 378 people had so far been arrested.
On Monday, six more were arrested and several police officers injured when they were attacked by rioters hurling bricks and fireworks in Plymouth, southern England.
Officers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, were attacked as rioters attempted to set fire to a shop owned by a foreign national. Police said a man in his 30s was seriously assaulted and that they are treating the incident as a racially motivated hate crime.
A group of men who gathered in Birmingham to counter a rumoured far-right demonstration, forced a Sky News reporter off air shouting: “Free Palestine”.
She was then followed by a man in a balaclava holding a knife. Another reporter said he was chased by mem bers of the group “with what looked like a weapon”, while police said there had also been incidents of criminal damage to a pub and a car.
Unrest broke out last Tuesday after three children were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport.
Justice minister Heidi Alexander told BBC Radio 4 that the govt had freed up an extra 500 prison places to accommodate those engaged in violence. She also said 6,000 specialist police officers have been drafted to deal with the violence. PM Starmer again sought to reassure the nation that action was being taken.
Mobs threw bricks and flares, attacked police, burnt and looted shops, smashed the windows of cars and homes and targeted at least two hotels housing asylum seekers at the weekend. The National Police Chiefs’ Council said Monday that 378 people had so far been arrested.