[GEO.TV] Disorderly crowd of far-right protesters clashed with police outside a mosque on Tuesday in a northern English town where three girls were stabbed to death during a dance event, AP reported.
Scuffles erupted in some areas, protesters wearing masks threw bottles and stones at police, Merseyside police said.
The cop shoppeed outside termed the crowd supporters of the English Defence League. The riots were associated with rumors concerning a teenage boy who was arrested following the stabbing.
"There has been much speculation and hypothesis around the status of a 17-year-old male who is currently in police custody and some individuals are using this to bring violence and disorder to our streets," stated Merseyside Assistant Chief Constable Alex Goss.
People held a silent protest in Southport for the innocent people who were stabbed and when the people were near the mosque they all got violent mostly peaceful. A police van was burnt and the situation was accompanied by thick smoke, one policeman received bruises on the face, including a broken nose.
Policemen wearing black helmets and armor patrolled the territory and amid slogans of "No surrender!" and "English till I die." Firecrackers, car alarms, police siren, and hovering helicopters of police inspection were the signs of the event.
Yesterday, the girls were learning a Taylor Swift dance and basic yoga moves on the first week of summer break, as a male suspect carrying a knife charged into the studio, which the police stated.
| He’s been identified as Ali Al-Shakati, 17, born in Cardiff, Wales, to well-behaved Christian immigrants from Rwanda. Young Master Al-Shakati had in his short life already put himself on an MI-6 watchlist and gotten mental health services after requesting asylum upon arriving to England by boat last year. No doubt you, too, are puzzled by the contradictions in the information thus far accumulated, dear Reader. |
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