More than 100 people have been arrested in London after clashes near the prime minister’s residence between police and protesters apparently fired-up by false online rumours.
British police say they have charged a 17-year-old with murder over a stabbing attack that left three girls dead and several more in critical condition. The charges came as the traumatised town of Southport cleaned up after a bout of far-right violence, and agitators fired up by anger and misinformation clashed with police near the prime minister’s residence in London.
Far-right demonstrators have launched several violent protests, ostensibly in response to the attack,A few hundred protesters hurled beer cans and flares near British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s residence in Downing Street in central London on Wednesday evening . More than 100 people were arrested for offences including violent disorder and assault on an emergency worker, London’s Metropolitan Police force said.
“I am absolutely appalled and disgusted at the level of violence that was shown towards my officers,” Merseyside Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said. “Some of the first responders who attended that awful scene on Monday ... then were faced with that level of violence.” Police said a name circulating on social media – spread by far-right activists and accounts of murky origin purporting to be news organisations – was incorrect and that he was born in Britain, contrary to online claims he was an asylum-seeker. The names of suspects under the age of 18 are usually not made public in Britain.
A young girl pays her respects among the thousands of flowers and tributes left for the victims of the Southport attack.Chanaka Balasuryla, whose corner shop was looted for alcohol and cigarettes, said he watched from home on a surveillance camera as a gang broke in. He was terrified because a woman and her daughter lived above the shop, and he feared the looters would set it on fire.
Joel Verite, a window cleaner riding in a van on his lunch break, said his colleague slammed on the brakes and reversed to where a woman was hanging on the side of a car covered in blood.
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