13:10, 05 Oct 2025<\/p>\n
Anti-immigration demonstrators and counter protesters are gathering in Bristol city centre as police attempt to keep the two sides apart.<\/p>\n
Campaigners are gathering at the Cenotaph in Bristol and have expressed their intention to march through The Centre to College Green against immigration.<\/p>\n
However, a large group of counter-protesters have said they intend to oppose the protest and are gathering near the Cenotaph too. Follow updates from the scene in our live blog here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Up at the Cenotaph, a group of around 40 anti-immigration protesters have arrived two hours early and are occupying the area police have fenced off for them.<\/p>\n Avon and Somerset police have drawn up an elaborate plan to try to keep the two sides apart<\/strong> <\/a>and warned that people who don’t enter one of the four different ‘protest zones’ could be arrested or ordered to disperse.<\/p>\n But a police officer reading out the powers declaring the area not part of the designated zone, warning protesters they could be arrested, was drowned out<\/p>\n At The Centre, the numbers of counter protesters has swollen massively to more than 300. Police have parked four police vans in an arc.<\/p>\n A small group of masked counter protesters gathered then across the road outside the Hippodrome but were forcibly moved across the road to the area of the main protest.<\/p>\n Police riders have stopped traffic now on Baldwin Street as the number of people at the scene increases. There have already been minor skirmishes between officers and counter protesters.<\/p>\n Ahead of the protest and counter protest, Bristol City Council<\/a> leader Tony Dyer called for unity and calm<\/strong> <\/a>while three of the city centre arts venues have released a joint statement condemning racists and offering their venues as a ‘safe space’ for people to take refuge.<\/p>\n Previous protests of this nature in the past two months in Bristol have seen large numbers of counter-protesters come out<\/strong> <\/a>to oppose the anti-immigration protest, with local councillors complaining of aggressive and violent police tactics<\/strong> <\/a>to deal with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anti-immigration demonstrators and counter protesters are gathering Daniel Clark Content Editor 13:10, 05 Oct 2025 Anti-immigration demonstrators and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,18680,381,3893,748,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-477229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-avon-fire-and-rescue","10":"tag-bristol","11":"tag-bristol-city-council","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115325000131701421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477229","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=477229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Counter](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-05-at-120324-2.jpg\")
Counter protesters gather in Bristol (Image: Paul Gillis\/BristolLive)<\/p>\n![\"Police](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-05-at-121841.jpg\")
Police read out powers declaring areas and designated zones (Image: Tristan Cork\/BristolLive)<\/p>\n![\"Police](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0_WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-05-at-124522.jpg\")
Police close road (Image: Tristan Cork\/ BristolLive )<\/p>\n