{"id":631262,"date":"2025-12-14T04:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631262\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:41:20","slug":"racist-offences-in-scotland-on-the-rise-and-account-for-60-per-cent-of-all-hate-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/631262\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist offences in Scotland on the rise and account for 60 per cent of all hate crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest data comes as anti-migrant protests grow, with many hotels co-opted by the Home Office into housing people seeking asylum.\"Anti-migrantAnti-migrant protesters outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk in September(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Racist offences<\/a> in Scotland are on the rise, accounting for 60 per cent of all hate crimes, shock figures have revealed.<\/p>\n

Police Scotland<\/a> recorded 5206 hate crimes between April and September \u2013 317 up on the same period last year \u2013 with racially-motivated offences showing the \u201cmost notable increase\u201d.<\/p>\n

Data shows 3164 were racial offences \u2013 60 per cent \u2013 a rise of over 6 per cent, or 184 more, than the same period last year.<\/p>\n

\"AngryAngry demonstrations outside hotels for asylum seekers in Falkirk(Image: DAILY RECORD)<\/p>\n

The data comes as anti-migrant protests<\/a> grow, with many hotels co-opted by the Home Office into housing people seeking asylum.<\/p>\n

The latest figures reveal there have been 32 hate crimes at accommodation housing migrants, 26 of which have been racially motivated.<\/p>\n

There have been 13 hate crimes at the \u201cmost publicised accommodation that has seen the focus of anti-immigration protests\u201d, 11 of which were racially aggravated.<\/p>\n

Police Scotland <\/a>confirmed this, referred to Falkirk which has been the scene of repeated clashes involving pro and anti-immigration demonstrators.<\/p>\n

It comes as it prepares to send hate crime \u201cspotters\u201d to migrant protests across the country in a bid to crackdown on abuse, including racial or religious slurs.<\/p>\n

But a force report, which went to the Scottish Police Authority last week, says: \u201cThe aforementioned crimes are only crimes linked to accommodation and didn\u2019t necessarily take place at the time of the protests.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdditionally, it is not possible to determine from the data how many hate crimes overall are the result of heightened protests regarding immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other hate offences, targeting age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, transgender and variations in sex characteristics, made up 2345 of the number.<\/p>\n

Home Office data shows more than 6300 asylum seekers are being supported in Scotland, including almost 1800 in \u201ccontingency accommodation\u201d like hotels.<\/p>\n

Polls confirm immigration has emerged as a top three concern for Scottish voters for the first time, with protests taking place across the country, including Perth, Falkirk, Aberdeenshire, Inverness, Glasgow and Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

There was fury in Inverness over plans for Cameron Barracks to be used as temporary accommodation for around 300 men, as part of UK government efforts to close asylum hotels.<\/p>\n

Communities have expressed concerns over the potential impact of the influx of large numbers of male asylum seekers.<\/a><\/p>\n

In June Sadeq Nikzad, 29, was jailed for nine year after being convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl just yards from the migrant hotel in Falkirk he was staying in after leaving Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Police Scotland Chief Constable Jo Farrell(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Chief constable Jo Farrell<\/a> says officers are policing more than 40 protests a week, tying up around 300 cops and diverting them from other key frontline roles.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cWe saw the first anti-immigration protest take place in Inverness which shows the spread of demand and impact of geopolitics and civil unrest across the country, reaching communities where protest activity is not common.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amnesty International claims the rise in civil unrest is being stoked by anti-migrant agitators intent on spreading \u201cfear, division, and disinformation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Thomson, Amnesty\u2019s acting Scotland programme director, voiced \u201cserious concern\u201d over the rise of toxic street politics and anti-migrant protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest data comes as anti-migrant protests grow, with many hotels co-opted by the Home Office into housing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,30,1102,16238,918,4884,40,20665,568,530,15894,8547,712,10613,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-631262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-falkirk","12":"tag-glasgow","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-immigration","15":"tag-inverness","16":"tag-perth","17":"tag-police-scotland","18":"tag-racism","19":"tag-religion","20":"tag-scotland","21":"tag-sunday-mail-news","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115716088803018467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631262","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=631262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}