Tens of Thousands March Through London for Rival Protests
Police deployed 4,000 officers and made 11 arrests as they kept the rival crowds apart amid fears of clashes and hate-fuelled disorder.
- More than 4,000 police officers were deployed in London to manage two rival protests, with around 80,000 attendees expected in total at the Unite the Kingdom and Nakba Day rallies.
- The Metropolitan Police planned to use drones, horses, dogs, armoured vehicles, and live facial recognition cameras for the first time in a protest policing operation, calling it one of the most significant policing operations in years requiring the highest degree of control.
- Police estimate around 50,000 people will attend the Unite the Kingdom rally and 30,000 at the Nakba Day protest.
- Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer condemned the Unite the Kingdom march, stating it promotes hatred and division.
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London. Tens of thousands of protesters, supporters of anti-migration and anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, on the one hand, and pro-Palestinian and anti-Racist, on the other, concentrated yesterday in central London on two marches guarded by a large police deployment. At least 43 people were arrested during the protests, local authorities reported.
Separate anti-immigration and pro‑Palestinian protests fill London streets
Tens of thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday in two separate protests - one against high levels of immigration and a perceived Islamic undermining British identity, and another in support of Palestinians.
Tens of thousands of far-right protesters and a pro-Palestinian demonstration were held in London on Saturday, amid unprecedented police presence. There were no major disturbances at the two demonstrations, but police detained dozens of participants. The main organizer of one of the demonstrations was Tommy Robinson, a leading activist in British far-right movements. Robinson, a former founder of the extremist anti-Islam far-right organization c…
London on Edge as Rival Mass Protests Draw Over 80,000 Marchers Amid Huge Police Crackdown
London braced for one of its most volatile weekends in recent memory as rival demonstrations flooded the capital with tens of thousands of protesters under the watch of an unprecedented police operation. The Metropolitan Police deployed more than 4,000 officers across central London, supported by drones, mounted units, helicopters and armoured vehicles, as fears mounted over possible clashes between demonstrators attending a pro-Palestinian Nakb…
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