Furious Epping locals vow to stop paying council tax after High Court ruled asylum seekers CAN stay at controversial hotel
Angry inhabitants living near an Essex immigrant hotel say that they will stop paying the council tax after the Supreme Court decision, which allows asylum seekers to remain.
Bell Hotel at EPPING became the center of the protests that sweep the country last month after being accused of sexual assault on an immigrant 14 -year -old girl.
The ongoing protests led to the local council’s home office to prevent more immigrants in the hotel to take a precautionary measure.
The decision immediately said that the councils would start similar high court offers to stop hotels in the regions of their home office with immigrants.
However, anti -immigrant protesters mean that the three high court judges overthrew the decision of the Bell Hotel precautionary measure, that is, the 138 immigrants remaining there will not be lifted until September 12th.
Friday’s decision led to a country -wide wave of protests, including violent conflicts between the residents and the police in front of the bell.
This weekend, angry inhabitants, even if the prison requirements, even if they mean to take a protest against the home office, said they plan to stop paying the Council tax.
Sarah White, the mother of three, said, ‘We were angry with those in court. We feel very vulnerable.
Sarah White said that he felt ‘very vulnerable’ after the court decision that allowed asylum seekers to stay at Bell Hotel.
EPPING, which follows the court decision, police and protesters other than Bell Hotel in Essex
Our children return to school tomorrow. What is the meaning of paying our Council tax if it is used directly to finance a place where sex attackers claim?
‘And for the locals, it finances a place that causes great concern and concern. Girls are being followed. It is contrary to everything that is for the Council tax. We know the results. ‘
Another calm that does not want to be defined added: ‘The emotion is so strong that the threat of prison does not worry. I will go to jail for this. ‘
44 -year -old Sarah Corner, who has been living in EPPING for 20 years, said, ‘We need to take an attitude. Enough.
Our taxes finance the hotel, the police and all the costs associated with it. This is not what should be for this. ‘
The protests in the Zil began last month after being accused of sexual harassment of an Ethiopian immigrant named Hadush Gerberslasi Kebatu, a 14 -year -old resident of an Ethiopian resident, was accused of sexual harassment.
Kebatu, who was tried at the Colchester Magistrate Court, rejects the charges.
This weekend, the EPPING Forest Region Council, which took the first Supreme Court precautionary measure, said that if it was lost at another Supreme Court hearing in October, it would take the issue to the Supreme Court.
The protests in Zil began last month after the accusation of an Ethiopian immigrant of a 14 -year -old girl and another woman of sexual harassment.
Apart from the Supreme Court, Ken Williamson from the EPPING Forest Region Council
The Council said in a statement: ‘Now we are reviewing our position, including the possibility of taking it to the High Court, and we exclude anything.
‘We will continue to fight on every front using the current democratic, diplomatic, legal and political tools until the Bell hotel is closed.’
However, last night, the Toray Assembly Member Holly Whitbread, representing the ward of Bell Hotel, called on the residents not to stop paying the Council taxes because the local authority was on its side.
Whitbread said: ‘Council tax is for important local services such as waste collection and support of local society.
At the end of the day he fights to close the council hotel. Them [residents] It should direct the disappointment to the government.
‘The use of Bell Hotel cannot be completely defended and the council has long been opposed the use of the hotel.’
However, the immigrant residents in Tanıtı are cheering the Supreme Court decision.
24 -year -old Khadar Mohamed from Somalia, I would like to thank Keir Starmer and the Government. I am very pleased with the news, wow. This is really surprising. ‘
He said that the people living in the hotel ‘live in fear’ to protest the locals.
