Inside the depraved world of migrant hunters using sickening tactics to track down asylum hotels in bid to spark violence
You are a traitor. These were the words that were currently used to host asylum seekers to a driver with a former defense ministry of Airbase in Essex last week.
Dozens from an iPhone The clip, which is thousands of online people, shows a group of immigrants hunters who exploit the driver, assumed to be a worker at the air base and threaten to publish the number plate of his car.
This – Before sharing the event with “Patriots ,, the personnel and police officers verbally abuse on the camera – It seems like the modus operandi of the self -declared immigrant hunters who are increasing due to increasing unrest in the government’s dealing with the migration crisis.
These far -right activists, usually posing as a journalist, will emerge in accommodation centers and hotels to harass those who work and live there. They then publish images online. – According to experts – To prepare the ground for anti -immigrant protests that usually fall to violence.
They also use Facebook and X to spread information about the locations of hotels that host asylum seekers by the government. An article shared every time in this corner of the Internet is an interactive map that allegedly shows the location of more than 200 hotels in the UK, where immigrants live.
The methods of detecting accommodation for asylum seekers seem to be a meticulous monitoring of Booking.com to check which 3* hotels are blocked for numerous tips and mass reservations from information from non -discontent employees and natives in these hotels.
Some of the leading immigrant hunters have approximately 200,000 followers in X and throw tweets about 20 times a day, often produce false and dangerous rumors about people in hotels. Among the more disturbing posts, an upcoming allegations of an upcoming terrorist attack between the images of the far -right activist Tommy Robinson produced by artificial intelligence.
Recent Research from the Anti -Campaign Group Umut Hate found that the number of immigrant hunters has doubled since 2021 and visited asylum seekers of asylum seekers more than 250 times.
However, the activities in the social media accounts related to the movement, which triggered similar demonstrations throughout the country, has increased in recent weeks after the anti -immigrant protests in Essex. Unrest began in July after being accused of sexual assault, including a 14 -year -old girl from Ethiopia, believed to stay at Bell Hotel.
Since then, protests took place in cities such as Manchester, London, Bournemouth and Edinburgh, and the organizers were more planned for Friday evening as part of what called “noble day”. – A mass protest in eight different places where asylum seekers are hosted by the country.
Extreme right groups have been encouraging such protests for years, but concerns about invading tactics used by migrant hunters who travel to various hotels, fill their opposition and harass those who temporarily take refuge there.
They then use messaging applications such as Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp to share information.
While talking IndependentHope Not Hate Research Director Joe Mulhall said that these individuals first came to the fore in the spring of 2021 as online.
“At the beginning of the beaches, they were on the beaches, they were attracted to the arrival of boats before moving from areas such as Dover to accommodation centers, and they made daily pens.
“They would pass the distant right system and release the daily Vlogs and live streams that would be taken by people like Tommy Robinson.
Anti -Racism, which analyzes the displacements of the protests, saw a model of charity – In 2024, the targeted hotels in violence were generally visited by immigrant hunters many times.
Following the murder of three girls in a Taylor Swift -themed dance class in Southport, the riots were curled up in British last July with a false wave of information on social media claiming that the killer was a Muslim asylum seeker.
Mr. Mulhall added: “When we saw these disgusting scenes outside the Holiday Inn in Rotherham, the immigrant Avcılar visited this hotel 12 times between 2021 and 2024. Because this hotel is not in the city center – People knew where to go, immigrant hunters had prepared the ground. ”
Momentum has recently risen, and these activists once again publish themselves live in protests and quickly collect thousands of comments and clicks online.
A protest organizer in EPPING Independent They noticed that Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf in the London finance zone was re -used by the Ministry of Interior after contacting an unnecessary employee.
Two protests exploded after the information spread online.
Meanwhile, an old soldier who claims to collect more than £ 30,000 donations to help finance an anti -immigrant movement called the Great British National Protest claims that he was behind 20 demonstrations throughout England.
33 -year -old Richard Donaldson, Times The money collected claimed that he hired the members of the personnel who will be used to finance “secret investigations in hotels ve and who are willing to wear hidden body cameras and share intelligence.
“There was a proliferation of online social media accounts that encourage anti -immigrant emotions, Sabby Dhalu said to the stand up racism.
“First, since Elon took over and the second, Donald Trump was president, there was a change in the algorithm, a prejudice against extreme right materials. Such content obtains a wider access.”
“We noticed that in our demonstrations, people said that they are journalists and that they have received their phones, but to identify the people they really do, and to describe the people they can target.”
On Monday, the Ministry of the Interior announced that it provided another 100 million pounds to combat smuggling, and Sir Keir Starmer made an agreement to return channel immigrants to France in exchange for asylum seekers with ties with England.
While the movement is criticized by refugee charities, the government hopes to prevent an outbreak of a similar disorder last summer.
Enver Solomon, CEO of Refugee Council, said: “protests against asylum seekers, in countries such as Sudan and Afghanistan gives alarm among adults and children who escaped from war.
“Last summer, we witnessed the refugees we supported the fears for their lives while trying to open fire at the hotel they live in.
“Our Frontsin staff work in many affected communities and see that most people are fair -minded and compassionate. Although there are questions about why hotels are used, these concerns are kidnapped by a violent minority.
“Shelter hotels have become glows – the symbol of a broken system that captures people in the limo, who cannot work with great public costs or cannot rebuild their lives.”
