Greater than 100,000 demonstrators packed London streets Saturday for a march organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
The “Unite the Kingdom” rally obtained underway as a lot smaller numbers of counterprotesters, organized by the Stand Up To Racism group, gathered beneath the banner of the “March In opposition to Fascism.”
Greater than 1,000 cops have been on obligation to patrol the dueling demonstrations, and there was a buffer zone to maintain the 2 from partaking with one another close to the halls of presidency.
Police estimated the gang on the Robinson rally at about 110,000 folks. The rival protest had about 5,000 marchers.
At one level, the bigger crowd stretched from Huge Ben throughout the River Thames and across the nook past Waterloo practice station, a distance of three-quarters of a mile (round a kilometer).
Joanna Chan / AP
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