Chris Clement and Paul WardBBC News, Phalkirk
Hundreds of supporters and anti -immigration protesters have collected outside the residence of a hotel in Falkirk.
This is a second large scale performance outside the Cladhan Hotel in the city this month.
Groups with several hundred numbers on each side were separated by police officers and metal railing lines.
The anti -immigration “stop boats” and “enough” in the crowd were signs of reading, while the counter protesters have “welcomed refugees”.
Earlier, a meeting of anti -immigration protesters was held at the center of Falkirk near the office of a local MP.
Children and family were in a group in the center of the city.
Salvere and union flags were waved and “Save Under Futures and Our Kids Futures” were also a signs of reading, which was the name of a group, which said opposition.
Some protesters used a loudspeaker and said: “Increase pressure and we can close this hotel. Council needs to work.”
Another person while addressing the crowd said that he and his family had “proper and legitimate concerns about too much illegal immigration”.
He said: “We are described as Nazis and racists. Nothing can be ahead of the truth.”
During the protest, hearing the crowd from several speakers, who provoked Britain’s immigration policy, criticized the use of hotels for house shelters and said the assembly was not “very correct”.
Speakers also criticized the mainstream media including the BBC, claiming that journalists did not properly cover the concerns of the citizens.
At one point, a person finished his speech saying: “Keep Britain white. Keep Scotland white”.
The organizers told the protesters that the initial plan to march Cladhan would not be warned due to “legal implications” and lack of permission from the police and the council.
However, shortly after 13:00, a crowd separated from the main protest and moved into small groups and to join each other protest outside Cladhan, where they met the counter-demonsters.
Outside the hotel, a woman named a woman SEZ, one of the organizers of the supporting performance, said: “So many people are blaming the diseases of our society – housing crisis, cost of life – people from all over the world.
“The real issue is that people in the government are not dealing properly and wrong people are being blamed for our problems.”
Aberdeen protest
There was also a separate protest in Aberdeen on Saturday.
Around 120 protesters gathered on Link Road at a hotel, which was previously known as the courtyard.
The protest was organized by Aberdeen against the illegal immigration group
Around 50 counter protesters gathered, but each side was kept separate from a significant police appearance.
Each side traded insults, tried to overtake the other side with bagpipe music.
Two people appeared in the form of mantras of “send them home” to congratulate the counter protesters because they were wearing masks wearing masks.
There have been several protests outside the Perth, Aberdeenshire and Falkirk during August during August.
Radisson Blue in Falkirk and Radisson Blue in Perth became a hotel seeking asylum.
One of the groups organizing protests, protests, it is racist, racist, and claims about the “rapid track” of refuge in social housing.
The group claims that it cannot be blamed for inflammatory banners, which includes an unfliest in the previous Phalkirk performance, reading “Kill ‘M All”.
Emotions in Falkirk have been inflamed after 29 -year -old shelter from Afghanistan Sadak Nikzad, A 15 -year -old girl was convicted in June of rape At the center of the city.
Nikzad was jailed for nine years.
Last-Anti-Estylum seekers protests have been held in Scotland-one was held in AYR in 2015, called by the Scottish Defense League, an offshoot of the English Defense League.
Others were held outside a hotel in Arskin in 2023, organized by a distant group called Patriotic alternative and also a group by Homeland that separated from the option of patriotism.