Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the increase in planned far-right gatherings across the region

UK police believe there are at least 30 potential far right gatherings planned tonight.

So far in the week’s unrest, 400 arrests have been made and around 100 people have been charged in connection with the disorder brought about by the riots.

Nearly 6,000 public order officers are being mobilised.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray is our UK correspondent this evening. Welcome back, Devin.
Hi there he yees. So unfortunately more gatherings planned for
this evening in the UK. Yeah, yeah, people I think
holding their breath a little bit about what is going
to happen, because there are claims up to thirty potentially
forty right wing far right gatherings are being planned tonight

(00:21):
and they are across the country and in some of
the major cities, but also some of the areas that
I think have been potentially very very annoyed by the
housing of asylum seekers and those crossing the channel illegally
in hotels near them, So plenty of hotels being targeted
as well. The Prime Minister held is second Cobra or

(00:43):
emergency meeting with ministers and heads of staff and security
and police yesterday. He says communities will be safe and
announced more than four hundred arrests that have already been made.
One hundred people have been charged in connection with the disorder.
They're beginning to trick through the courts now and six
thousand public order officers are being mobilized to respond tonight

(01:07):
are times six thousands. They've also made five hundred extra
prison places available in order to ease the pressure on
the justice system here, but quite extraordinary and already riotally
standby forces setting up neighborhood policing patrols, teams of detectives,
drawing up on CCTV and body worn footage and using

(01:29):
facial recognition to try and pin down those who are responsible. Kevin,
what was the straight to the T shock about? Well,
of course we're not alone in this sudden veer two
getting violent about migration and asylum in Ireland. Over the
last few weeks they've had an ongoing pressure there where

(01:52):
so many migrants have arrived, some incidentally coming from the
UK and getting into Ireland over the land border with
Northern Ireland, and plenty of people they're just saying, can't
get hospital, can't get housing, can't get anything, and pressure
preferences being given to migrants. In this particular instance, the
TA shock, as he's called, the Irish Prime Minister Simon

(02:15):
Harris and his wife have had a threat against them.
It's thought there was a mention of knives on an
Instagram post about them, and he says he won't be
deterred from doing his job. But actually it comes just
a couple of days after a van was rammed into
the gates of his department, a big sort of rather
grand building with big raught iron gates. Yeah, van rammed

(02:36):
into those. And it was six weeks since a hoax
bond threat was made at Simon Harris's family home in
County Wicklow. Also, so many high profile Irish politicians have
had crowds of people gathering outside their home shanting things
and all this really predominantly carrying anti immigration banners and

(02:56):
wearing masks. As I said, it's not just the weather,
the son weather that's hot here. It is also the
tension and the heat that's brought about with the asylum process. Yeah, okay,
At that Polish guy who punched in Mark's Prime minister
aarently can't remember doing it, Kenny, no, no, So you
may remember that the Prime Minister of Denmark, Meta Frederickson,

(03:20):
suffered minor neck and shoulder injuries. She was walking out
and about and she was simply punched by a man
is her or the security detailer there but didn't manage
to prevent the act because it sort of came out
of the blue. And the suspect, who can't be named
for legal reasons, but we've been believed to be a

(03:41):
Polish man has gone on trial in Copenhagen, the Danish capital,
charge with violence against a public servant and several counts
of indecent exposure and fraud relating to other incidents. Now,
what he's saying is that he remembers he was having
a bad day, he remembers approaching the prime minister, but
then doesn't remember ending until being effectively arrested. And so yeah,

(04:06):
he can't remember rending. We'll wait to see where this
goes with the court. But interestingly made Frederickson, the Prime Minister,
won't have to give evidence, which probably spares quite some
political embarrassment. Yeah, fair enough, I Gevin, thank you so much,
really appreciate it. Gavin Gray, UK correspondent gees, you'd think
you'd remember punching the Danish prime minister, or maybe it's

(04:27):
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