After a weekend of violent clashes between Muslim and Hindu men, things seemed to have calmed down in Leicester. A total of 47 arrests have been made since the trouble started at the end of August, according to Leicestershire Police. One man has been sentenced to ten months in jail for his part in the violence. The police crackdown has, for now, appeared to have worked: on Monday and Tuesday there were no reports of disorder.
It remains to be seen whether tensions will flare up again in the city – and whether the disorder spreads to other areas. Events last night in Smethwick in the West Midlands – some 30 miles away from Leicester – suggests that might be a possibility.
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Yesterday evening around 200 Muslim men converged on a Hindu temple in the Smethwick area for what had been billed online as a ‘peaceful protest against these Hindus that are attacking innocent Muslims’.
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