‘A dark day’: anger in Rotherham after riot at hotel housing asylum seekers

‘A dark day’: anger in Rotherham after riot at hotel housing asylum seekers

Residents attempt clean-up after far-right mob attacked police, smashed windows and tried to set building on fire

Was it naive to think it would be a peaceful protest, people wondered after the riot at a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham, where windows were smashed, police attacked and a fire escape briefly set ablaze with 250 people trapped inside.

The demonstration was to be held at noon on Sunday outside the Holiday Inn Express in Wath-upon-Dearne, known locally as Wath, a village north of Rotherham. The hotel is not a stranger to protests. It is contentious locally and had become the scene of anti-immigration outrage in the past – though there were few who anticipated what a terrifying turn Sunday would take.

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