The Metropolitan Police say they have arrested five people after a group of masked men attempted to enter a hotel in west London housing asylum seekers.<\/p>\n
The men tried to get into the Crowne Plaza in Stockley Road in West Drayton through a rear entrance and damaged security fences, according to the Met.<\/p>\n
Two anti-asylum groups comprising around 500 people marched to the Crowne Plaza at around 12:00 BST on Saturday. <\/p>\n
A breakaway protest group moved towards the nearby Novotel hotel on Cherry Lane, where officers were also positioned, and some of the crowd also moved towards a Holiday Inn nearby.<\/p>\n
Police said officers “enforced cordons in the area to prevent a breach of the peace and three arrests were made”.<\/p>\n
Two more arrests were made as police dispersed the crowd.<\/p>\n
Two officers suffered minor injuries and protesters did not gain entry to any of the hotels.<\/p>\n
A Section 35 dispersal order has now been put in place, allowing officers to direct people to leave the area and not return if they suspect they may cause disorder.<\/p>\n
Cdr Adam Slonecki, the senior officer in charge of policing London over the weekend, said “further arrests will be made if we need to tackle disorder”.<\/p>\n
He added: “We understand strength of feeling on these issues, but where peaceful protest crosses the line into criminality, including injuries to our officers, we will take immediate action.<\/p>\n
“We deployed additional officers to the area and five arrests have been made for offences including assault on a police officer, affray and violent disorder.<\/p>\n
“Around 500 protesters were in the area, but most people have now dispersed from the immediate vicinity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Metropolitan Police say they have arrested five people after a group of masked men attempted to enter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-386069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115120578571376567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}