地区部队8月7日星期五表示，英国警方在一个连续三晚遭受反移民抗议活动的城镇逮捕了五人，并护送寻求庇护者到安全地带。地区警察局长保罗·桑福德告诉英国广播公司广播四台，抗议活动于周二至周四在英格兰东部塞特福德镇举行，目标是抗议者“认为是寻求庇护者”的建筑物。
UK police have arrested five people and escorted asylum seekers to safety in a town hit by three consecutive nights of anti-migrant protests, the regional force said Friday, August 7. The protests, which took place from Tuesday to Thursday in the town of Thetford in eastern England, targeted buildings the protesters "believed were housing asylum seekers," regional police chief Paul Sanford told BBC Radio 4.
诺福克警察局长桑福德说：“有几次，为了他们的安全，我们需要护送这些房产的居民离开。”他补充说，其中一些居民是寻求庇护者。
"On a couple of occasions, that required us to escort the residents of those properties away for their safety," said Sanford, chief constable of Norfolk police, adding some of the residents were asylum seekers.
抗议活动是在有人提议使用附近废弃的军事地点来安置寻求庇护者之后发生的。政府在处理数千名寻求庇护者的申请时一直在努力寻找合适的地点来安置他们。
The protests followed proposals to use a nearby disused military site to house asylum seekers. The government has been struggling to find appropriate sites to house thousands of asylum seekers while it processes their applications.
内政部试图减少对酒店的依赖，酒店已被证明是抗议活动的热点，因为对移民的愤怒更普遍地加剧了对极右翼的支持。政府有法律义务确保寻求庇护者获得住宿和医疗保健。
The interior ministry has sought to reduce reliance on hotels, which have proved a flashpoint for protests, as anger over immigration more generally has fuelled support for the far right. The government is legally bound to ensure access to accommodation and health care for asylum seekers.
据《卫报》报道，在网上流传一份据称与寻求庇护者住房有关的房产清单后，周二和周三有100多人抗议。随后，三人因涉嫌各种公共秩序犯罪而被捕，警方称一名警官被石头击中，另一名警官被咬伤，第三名警官被吐口水。周四晚上，又有两名男子被捕，警方称这是一个平静的夜晚。
According to The Guardian, more than 100 people protested on Tuesday and Wednesday after a list of properties allegedly linked to asylum seeker housing circulated online. Three people were arrested then on suspicion of various public order offenses, with police saying one officer was hit by a rock, another was bitten, and a third was spat at. Two more men were arrested on Thursday night, which police said was a calmer night.
社交媒体上居民在警察护送下离开目标房屋的视频显示，数十名抗议者大喊“滚出去”和“不欢迎难民”。桑福德表示，如果警方没有干预，“抗议者很有可能进入该房产……”确实威胁到了居住者的安全。“六月，北爱尔兰首都贝尔法斯特也发生了反移民骚乱，起因是一名苏丹寻求庇护者因刺伤事件而受到指控。在网上流传地址清单后，骚乱者的目标是少数族裔和据信与移民住宿有关的住房。
Videos on social media of residents being escorted by police from targeted homes show dozens of protesters shouting "get out" and "refugees not welcome." If police had not intervened, Sanford said it was "highly likely that the protesters would have got into the property... and really threatened the safety of the occupants." Anti-migrant riots also hit the Northern Irish capital Belfast in June, sparked by a stabbing for which a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged. Rioters targeted ethnic minorities and housing believed to be linked to migrant accommodation after lists of addresses circulated online.
今年早些时候，数百人抗议在英格兰南部另一个前军营安置寻求庇护者的计划。
Earlier this year, hundreds protested against plans to house asylum seekers at another former military barracks in southern England.