It was convened by the ultra -right leader Tommy Robinson. The Keir Starmer government will begin the first returns from immigrants to France on Monday.
The center of London was the scene this Saturday of a Massive manifestation against immigrationconvened by the ultra -right leader Tommy Robinson. Mmore than 110,000 people They gathered under the slogan “Unite The Kingdom” (let’s unite the kingdom) to request more hard measures against migrants trying to settle in the country.
Protesters, carrying British flags and banners with messages such as “Stop the Pateras” and “Return them home”they crowd streets and squares in what the authorities described as One of the largest right -wing mobilizations in the country’s recent history.
The protest, which extended from the south of the capital to the government area, overflowed at several times the security device deployed by the Metropolitan Policewhich mobilized 1,600 agents To avoid incidents.
Despite the police cords, they registered assaults on officers and attempts to break the barriers that separated the protesters from a Anti -racist countermarchaconvened by the group “Stand Up to Racism”which nucleated some 5,000 people In the Trafalgar Square with slogans such as “Refugees are welcome.”
“The revolution has begun”, the illusion of a United Kingdom without immigrants
The tension climate is part of a summer marked by the Increased irregular arrivals through the La Mancha Canal And the recent murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirkfact that has fueled anti -immigration speech in the United Kingdom. Robinson, central figure of the act, declared that “The revolution has begun”while his followers chanted slogans against illegal immigration and demanded greater border control.
The government of Keir Starmerthat from this Monday the First Immigrant Returns to France Within the framework of a bilateral agreement, now faces the challenge of containing social discomfort without giving up the most radical demands. Meanwhile, the pressed on London streets left the deepening the crack Around immigration policy, in a context where ultra -right gains ground and institutions try to prevent discontent from deriveing widespread violence.
Source: Ambito
