18-year-old man arrested after protest outdoors Hindu temple in UK’s Birmingham

A “minor disorder” throughout a protest outdoors a Hindu temple within the metropolis of Birmingham involving fireworks focused at cops has resulted in a person’s arrest and cease and search powers being deployed, UK police stated on Wednesday.

Videos of Tuesday’s protest outdoors Durga Bhawan temple on Spon Lane in Smethwick space of the West Midlands metropolis had been circulating on social media in a single day, with teams of masked males seen shouting and hurling objects. Police officers could possibly be seen holding and pulling a few of these masked males attempting to scale the temple fence.

England: Protest deliberate outdoors Hindu temple in Birmingham.

Group of round 200 strategy exterior fencing of temple.#England #Leicester #Birmingham pic.twitter.com/1lWM1HM1Fz

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“Following a protest gathering in Smethwick last night (September 20), there was some minor disorder and one person was arrested,” West Midlands Police stated in an announcement.

“We had a pre-planned police presence near the temple in Spon Lane where fireworks and missiles were thrown towards some of our officers. Thankfully no-one was injured,” the police stated, including that additionally it is trying into stories of a “small number” of vehicles being broken.

The 18-year-old man arrested on suspicion of possessing a knife stays in custody for questioning on Wednesday.

“We are continuing to provide a visible police presence, working closely with faith leaders and partners across the community to provide reassurance. We will continue to monitor the situation locally and across the region,” the police stated.

An apparantly ‘peaceable’ (?) muslim protest outdoors a temple in Smethwick, Birmingham tonight. pic.twitter.com/QtfI4JhHnH

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The protest was reportedly known as by native Muslim teams towards a deliberate go to of a Hindu activist from India to the temple in Birmingham, which police had introduced earlier on Tuesday had been cancelled.

“We understand this (protest) is in relation to concerns around a speaker at the temple in Spon Lane, but we’re informed the event has been cancelled and this person is not staying in the UK,” native Sandwell Police posted on Twitter on Tuesday.

The speaker was believed to be Sadhvi Ritambhara, founding father of Param Shakti Peeth, who was to journey to the UK from India. However, the protest went forward regardless of bulletins that any such deliberate speak was not going down.

The clashes in Birmingham comply with “serious disorder” between Hindu and Muslim teams within the japanese England metropolis of Leicester within the wake of an India-Pakistan cricket match on the finish of final month. It has resulted in 47 arrests over the previous few weeks and on Tuesday, group leaders gathered outdoors a mosque within the metropolis to attraction for concord.

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The Indian High Commission in London issued a robust condemnation of the assaults on Indian diaspora communities in Leicester on Monday and this was adopted by the Pakistan High Commission in London issuing its personal condemnation of assaults on its diaspora on Tuesday.

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