Rioting and disturbances and confrontations with the police have been observed in Belfast, Darlington, and the southern English seaport city of Plymouth.
The Devon and Cornwall police added that they detained six individuals in Plymouth following the “elements of aggression in the different areas of the city.” In the evening, several officers were assaulted as well as some members of the public who were injured. Two men were rushed to the hospital.
The force responded in its statement, saying, “Violence will not be tolerated; hate will not be tolerated.”.
The British authorities are attempting to stop the act of violence that started a week ago after a man stabbed three little girls in a children’s dance class in the northwestern region of Southport.
Keir Starmer has accused far-right activists of being an assailant to the rampage, increases in deaths by unprovoked murder exacerbated by social media disinformation, and vowed to apprehend the peel offenders with “severe criminal penalties.”
The reported arrests have been rising; over the course of the week, the BBC reports that almost 400 people were arrested. It said that some of the suspects named connected to the riots were in different magistrate’s courts, including Liverpool, South Tyneside, and Hull, on Monday.
The violence started several hours later, when community members buried the girls killed and affected in the dance attack. An enraged mob attacked Southport Mosque. Since the Southport man’s attack, armed groups have gone on to attack hotels that housed asylum seekers, as well as mosques, given community rumors that the suspect was a Muslim asylum seeker.
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‘Regardless of what perhaps the motive may be, this is not protest; this is plain terror, and we will not accept acts of violence against mosques or our Muslim communities,’ he said on Monday.
The perpetrator in the Southport massacre was arraigned in court the previous week, and moreover, the judge freed the media from any restrictions on revealing the identity of the alleged offender. He was named 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, Cardiff, born to Rwandan parents but has been living in the Southport area since 2013.
