Antimigrant Clashes Expand Because Of The Hoax Of Soutporth Murder, British PM Emergency Meeting With Police

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JAKARTA - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will hold an emergency meeting with police chiefs after days of escalating anti-migrant protests.

Clashes are said to have occurred because the hoax that killed a boy in Southport England was a migrant, in fact, police have denied it. As a result of the clashes, so far 420 people have been arrested.

The killings were discovered by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups when misinformation spread online the suspected attacker was a radical Islamist who had just arrived in England.

Police said the suspect was born in England and did not consider it a terrorist incident.

Interior Minister Yvette Cooper said rioters felt "dare at this moment to generate racial hatred", by throwing bricks at police officers, looted shops and mosques and Asian-owned businesses under attack.

Over the weekend, riots took place in Liverpool, Bristol, Tamworth, Middlesbrough and Belfast, in Northern Ireland, with most young men wearing balclavas and English flags throwing stones and chanting "Stop Boats (migrant ships), referring to migrants arriving on the ship. south coast in recent years.

In Rotherham, northern England, protesters are trying to get into a hotel that houses asylum seekers.