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Clashes in front of a hotel hosting asylum seekers – British police alert after clashes
A demonstration of the extreme right degenerated into violence on Friday in front of a hotel hosting asylum seekers.
Police in front of the Bell Hotel in Epping after anti-immigration demonstrations on July 18, 2025.
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Police from a city in the Great suburbs of London was on the alert Friday. Nevertheless, after violence during which eight police officers were injured Thursday evening in front of a hotel hosting asylum seekers.
Three vehicles were damaged during these violence which lasted several hours in the city of Epping (southeast of England). Moreover, according to local police.
According to police. Meanwhile, the clashes have taken place near a hotel known to accommodate asylum seekers, targeted in recent days by several demonstrations after the indictment of a 38 -year -old asylum seeker accused of three sexual assaults.
Essex police. where Epping is, have attributed this violence to individuals “from british police alert after clashes outside” in the region, while videos calling for the demonstration circulated online. Several far -right influencers were present on site.
Masked demonstrators
“We have set up a team of detectives responsible for analyzing video surveillance images. the poeting cameras to identify the officials,” a local police official, Stuart Hooper told AFP. “Those who participated can expect what we can be at their door,” he warned.
Videos broadcast on social networks show masked demonstrators launching projectiles, climbing police vans and attacking the police.
The police announced that it would remain strongly mobilized all weekend to prevent new overflows. She recalled that she supported the right to demonstrate peacefully. but that she would not tolerate “acts of violence and vandalism”.
These tensions recall the anti-immigration british police alert after clashes riots which had shaken the country last summer. after the murder of three girls by a young British of Rwandan origin in the city of Southport (North West).
Rioters had attacked hotels hosting asylum seekers in several cities. trying in particular to burn one of these establishments in Rotherham, in northeast England.
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