The Metropolitan Police have arrested six anti-migrant protesters during demonstrations in Canary Wharf.
The MET confirmed the arrests on X, saying “six arrests so far: for breaching Section 14 Public Order conditions, possession of Class B drugs, and assaulting an emergency worker”.
It comes after Isle of Dogs locals spoke to GB News outside Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf to protest the housing of asylum seekers.
Demonstrators were spotted wearing pink while holding England flags and signs reading “stop the boats”.
Speaking to GB News, two local women dressed in pink made their feelings clear about the housing of asylum seekers in their area.
One said: “We all have National Insurance numbers. They know who we are and exactly where to find us.
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“We don’t with them. Us women and children are terrified they can come out on the street. They’re undocumented and there’s no curfew or protection for us.”
Asked how she feels about being branded ‘far-right’ by counter protesters, she said: “We’re not far-right, but not far-wrong either.
“When the kids go back to school next month, we’ve got a Pink Patrol where us ladies will patrol the Isle of Dogs and protect the kids.
“Last Friday, the leftists had 300 police protecting them. That’s not fair.”
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Another local said: “I don’t want to say on camera what I would say to Keir Starmer. I don’t get why we’re not being listened to.
“I have never been on a protest before in my life. We’re peaceful and just trying to get a message across.”
A protesting man said on GB News the local housing of asylum seekers has been done without consulting the public, hence his decision to protest.
“It’s completely agnostic from a class perspective”, he said.
“If you want to look at that gathering of people and suggest it’s far-right, you’re welcome to that absurdity.”
Asked about the Government’s pledge to stop the housing of asylum seekers in hotels by 2029, he said: “The Government needs to prioritise the safety of the public.”
This month, a young woman tried to storm the hotel with a meat cleaver after finding an asylum seeker in her mother’s flat ‘moving his hands over his groin’, a court heard.
Ms Augustus’s lawyer Emma Clements told Thames Magistrates’ Court she found the man ‘moving his hand’ over his genital area.
He was chased away before she allegedly went to the hotel to confront a security guard who was trying to calm her down.
She later returned with a meat cleaver which she banged against a metal barrier outside the hotel while shouting ‘f****** asylum seekers’, the court heard.
Channay Augustus, 22, is accused of being part of a group of around 20 people who attempted to barge into the hotel.
The trouble is said to have begun after she discovered a migrant while cleaning her blind mother’s ground-floor flat five minutes away from the hotel.
Augustus, of Tower Hamlets, was remanded into custody to appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on September 12.