It comes after far-right riots rocked Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Hull, Belfast, Stoke and other cities on Saturday. Sir Keir Starmer has warned far-right thugs participating in violence they would “regret” it and feel the “full force of the law” after a mob set fire to a Rotherham hotel used to house asylum seekers. (…) It comes as masked rioters assembled outside a Holiday Express hotel in Manvers, South Yorkshire, and clashed with police. After thugs threw bricks and smashed windows, footage emerged of a fire raging from a bottom-floor window as hotel guests looked on from the top floor. (…) Far-right rioters made threatening ‘cut-throat’ gestures to migrants being housed in a Rotherham hotel. A video sent to a journalist, reportedly sent by a migrant in the hotel, showed several people shouting abuse at the migrant with one masked man drawing his hand across his throat.
via independent: UK riots live: Far-right torch Rotherham Holiday Inn migrant hotel as Starmer warns thugs will regret violence
siehe auch: Rioters try to torch Rotherham asylum seeker hotel amid far-right violence Home secretary condemns ‘utterly appalling’ scenes as bottles and chairs thrown outside Holiday Inn Express. A far-right-led mob of masked rioters tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers as further violence flared across the country at anti-immigration protests. Some 700 people gathered outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, before clashing with police. Some rioters hurled pieces of wood, bottles and chairs, and sprayed fire extinguishers at police officers. South Yorkshire police said at least 10 officers had been injured, including one who was left unconscious with a head injury. Footage from the scene showed a bin on fire and protesters, some draped in St George and union flags, chanting: “Get them out.” The demonstrators appeared at one point to storm into the hotel, with reports of a fire inside, and people peering out of windows. (…) Protests at the Holiday Inn Express began at midday, immediately turning into a riot when a mob of far-right individuals, mostly men, smashed windows and set a stairwell in the building alight, temporarily overwhelming police. Shabnam Shabir, who came as part of a group of counter-protesters, said she had been left traumatised after her group was surrounded and kettled by the mob, who chanted racist words and called her the p-word. “It was a lot of angry, angry, angry far right,” she said. “This is very scary.” She was left stranded in her car outside the hotel, unable to leave until the rioters did. “And we have people inside of the hotel who are scared for their lives so it’s terrifying.” Police closed roads around the hotel, which is on a major roundabout and connected by roads on three sides.By 5pm, they had made space around the building and pushed the rioters back with their shields.