Anti-immigration demonstrators gathered outside a police station in southern England on Thursday following the arrest of activist Daniel Thomas, also known as 'Danny Tommo', a prominent figure in the Patriot Platform nationalist protest network.
Thomas was arrested over a video that appeared to show him slashing a migrant boat with a knife off the south coast after its passengers had been transferred to a rescue vessel.
Police charged the 37-year-old with criminal damage after an allegation that a boat was damaged while an emergency responder was on board. He has been remanded in custody and is due to appear in court on Friday.
Patriot Platform emerged this year through online channels used by right-wing nationalist groups. It says it wants to stop migrants arriving in Britain by small boats and deport those already in the country.
Earlier this month, several hundred masked supporters disrupted traffic at the ports of Dover and Portsmouth. The UK government condemned the de...
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