{"id":3573,"date":"2025-07-27T22:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hundreds-demonstrate-in-protest-hit-uk-town\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:10:45","slug":"hundreds-demonstrate-in-protest-hit-uk-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/hundreds-demonstrate-in-protest-hit-uk-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds demonstrate in protest-hit UK town"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of demonstrators from rival groups marched through a UK town on Sunday under tight police security amid tensions over anti-immigrant protests.<\/p>\n

It was the latest in a series of demonstrations in Epping, northeast of London, after an asylum seeker was charged earlier in July with three counts of sexual assault, including allegedly attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

But only about 400 people from rival groups demonstrated in the town, as police put in place a tight security operation, erecting barricades to keep them apart and banning the wearing of masks.<\/p>\n

Essex police said they had “a robust policing operation in place to protect our community and to deal swiftly with anyone intent on causing crime or violent disorder”.<\/p>\n

Protestors gathered outside the Bell Hotel in the town, which has been used to house asylum seekers and refugees, despite pleas from the local council to close it down.<\/p>\n

“They’re a threat. They don’t know who they are, who they’re allowing in these hotels, and basically they’re putting everybody at danger”, one protester, who identified herself only as Cathy, told AFP.<\/p>\n

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There was also a counter-protest by the organisation Stand Up To Racism, who chanted “refugees are welcome here” and “Whose streets? Our streets”.<\/p>\n

Three people were arrested Sunday but the protest went off “peacefully,” Essex police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The issue of thousands of irregular migrants arriving in small boats across the Channel, coupled with the UK’s worsening economy, has triggered rising anger among some Britons.<\/p>\n

Such sentiments have been amplified by inflammatory messaging on social networks, fuelled by far-right activists.<\/p>\n

Almost exactly a year ago on July 29, 2024, three young girls were stabbed to death in a frenzied attack in northwestern Southport.<\/p>\n

The shocking killings stoked days of riots across the country after false reports that the killer — a UK-born teenager whose family came to the country from Rwanda after the 1994 genocide — was a migrant.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 24,000 migrants have made the perilous journey across the Channel so far in 2025, the highest-ever tally at this point in a year.<\/p>\n

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Hundreds of demonstrators from rival groups marched through a UK town on Sunday under tight police security amid tensions over anti-immigrant protests. It was the latest in a series of demonstrations in Epping, northeast of London, after an asylum seeker was charged earlier in July with three counts of sexual assault, including allegedly attempting to…<\/p>\n

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