LONDON: Police in London have banned a right-wing populist party from staging a rally calling for “mass deportations” in an area with a large Muslim population.
The UK Independence Party, known as UKIP, had planned to hold the event in Whitechapel on Saturday, telling supporters to “reclaim the area from Islamists.”
London’s Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday it had banned the event from taking place anywhere in the Tower Hamlets borough over “concerns of serious disorder.”
Commander Nick John said: “Tower Hamlets has the largest percentage of Muslim residents anywhere in the UK and the prospect of this protest taking place in the heart of the borough has been the cause of significant concern locally.
“It is our assessment that there is a realistic prospect of serious disorder if it was to go ahead in the proposed location.”
