Officers were forced to rush in and separate the two groups with metal barriers after clashes erupted outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in Islington on Saturday afternoon.
The forced warned the protest had been “endorsed by groups from outside the local community which is likely to increase the number of people attending”.
Police form a barrier in front of masked protesters outside the hotel (Photo: PA)Protesters demonstrating under the banner ‘Thistle Barbican needs to go – locals say no’ wave a Union flag outside the hotel (Photo: Lucy North/PA Wire)
Eyewitnesses said migrants watched from windows inside the hotel, with some waving and blowing kisses as protesters chanted and banged drums in the street below.
A large group of masked counter-demonstrators dressed in black and chanting “we are anti-fascist” marched from a side street towards the main protest.
Protesters from Stand Up To Racism gather outside the hotel (Photo: PA)Anti-immigration protesters opposing the continued use of the hotel to house asylum seekers (Photo: PA)
A protest and counter-protest will also take place in Newcastle outside The New Bridge Hotel on Saturday.
Pat Prendergast, 21, said: “I want people to feel safe. I think the (rival protesters) over there are making people feel unsafe.
“We want migrants. We want asylum seekers.”
“Get these scum off our streets”, one man chanted in the direction of the hotel.
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