They thought they were going to die': the asylum seekers who survived rioters trying to burn down their accommodation

"The hotel was being used to house asylum seekers—young men and teenage boys who fled their home countries for perceived safety on British shores."

"A lot of the people there, he says, are rooted in fascism, they're hardcore. Within two hours the counterprotest group he was part of was evacuated by police."

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