Overview
- Anti-immigration protesters and counter-demonstrators confronted each other on Saturday outside a Redcliffe hotel housing asylum seekers in Bristol.
- Avon & Somerset Police imposed Section 14 conditions and Section 60AA face-covering powers, set protest and exclusion zones, and ordered some counter-protesters to leave, with powers in place until 10pm.
- Five people were arrested in total, including four on suspicion of assaulting police officers and one for failing to provide details, with criminal investigations to follow.
- Police said all five arrested had traveled from outside Bristol, with four men placed on conditional bail and a woman released.
- One officer was taken to hospital with injuries sustained during the operation and has since been discharged, and UKIP leader Nick Tenconi attended and made anti-immigration remarks.