Dozens of activists and residents demonstrated on Tuesday against the presence of the American vice-president JD Vance in a rural region in the southwest of England, where he spent his family vacation.
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About sixty people gathered in the city of Charlbury, in the Cotswolds region, brandishing signs on which you could read “Go home!”, “You are not welcome” and “Sit the camp!”
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British police and American security services were present in force on the usually quiet roads leading to the neighboring hamlet where the vice-president stays, blocking certain roads and certain trails in this rural region prized by tourists.
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“The inhabitants of the Cotswolds are here today to tell JD Vance that he is not welcome,” said Jake Atkinson, of the Stop Trump coalition, at AFP during the Rally.
Earlier in the day, a black van sporting an image of the vice-president, retouched to make it appear bald and puffy, traveled the winding streets of the city.
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“We wanted to give him the same welcome as the one he reserved for (Volodymyr) Zelensky at the White House,” said Lou Johnson, a 75-year-old Charlbury resident.
JD VANCE began his holidays in Great Britain last week by meeting the British Foreign Minister David Lammy, who welcomed him in his Cheventing residence, in Kent, south-east of London.
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