A demonstration has been held outside a hotel used to accommodate asylum seekers in a wealthy financial district of London.
Protesters – a mixture of men wearing face masks and families with children – waved flags and listened to speeches outside the Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf.
Chants of “send them home” broke out while one man rattled the metal fence outside the hotel in full view of police officers.
Tourists, shoppers and guests at a nearby hotel stopped to take pictures of the spectacle.
It is the latest in a series of demonstrations over the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.
On Saturday, the Metropolitan Police made nine arrests after rival groups gathered outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in Islington, north London.
A protest and counter-protest also took place in Newcastle outside the New Bridge Hotel and four people were arrested on suspicion of public order offences, Northumbria Police said.
Scotland Yard said plans were in place to “respond to any protest activity in the vicinity of other hotels in London being used to accommodate asylum seekers”.
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