29 December 2024: Guardian: ‘They thought they were going to die’: the asylum seekers who survived rioters trying to burn down their accommodation
Four months on from the far-right violence that shocked the UK, what happened to the men living in a hotel that was targeted?
The Holiday Inn Express on Manvers Way, just outside Rotherham, stands quiet and empty. There are hints that something has happened here: cracks in some of the windows, and round the back, if you know where to look, remnants of police tape. But there are no obvious signs of the violence that took place in August, nor of the danger faced by the hotel’s former residents, who, many say, were lucky to escape with their lives when the hotel was set alight during a far-right riot.
Continue reading “‘They thought they were going to die’”