UK: Far-right rioters storm hotel housing migrants – DW – 08/04/2024
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to do "whatever it takes" to bring those responsible to justice. Riots have spread across the country after misinformation was spread about a knife attack that killed three girls.

Police in the northern English city of Rotherham struggled to hold back a group of far-right activists on Sunday, who broke into a hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers.

The disturbance is the latest in a series of violent protests by anti-immigration groups in British towns and cities this week after three girls were killed in a knife attack in Southport in northwest England on Monday.

Footage aired on British TV showed officers with shields targeted by a barrage of projectiles outside the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Rotherham, near Sheffield.

A few minutes later, the protesters can be seen storming the building and removing chairs from inside to use as weapons.

A small fire was also visible while windows in the hotel were smashed.

At least one officer was injured in the confrontation.

  • sandbox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    The ruling class manipulate and control the working class. People don’t act against their own interests apropos of nothing, they’re tricked into it. The media is responsible for these riots.

    • nifty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      People need to held accountable for irresponsible rhetoric, but it’s not just that. The working class has always been willing to believe that it can uplift itself by acting as a thug arm of the upper class.

      You can go back in any time period in history and observe the same. I am not sure how much education helps resolve the inherent stupidity some people carry and cannot overcome.

      Educating people is useless, they need UBI or social welfare or something so they can keep living their dumb lives instead of being miserable and blaming it on others worse off than them.

    • Waveform@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      It really does seem like it boils down to this every time. How can an aggressive propaganda campaign be counteracted without infinite resources, and without alienating people?