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Tommy Robinson is facing a prison sentence after playing a “libellous” film in Trafalgar Square on a day of violent protests in London.
By Sam Ormiston, Assistant News Editor
22:10, Sat, Jul 27, 2024 | UPDATED: 22:11, Sat, Jul 27, 2024
Tommy Robinson is due before the High Court on Monday (Image: Getty)
Tommy Robinson could end up in jail after playing a bombshell “documentary” in front of thousands of protesters in central London on Saturday.
Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, played the “libellous” film, called Silenced, on giant screens in Trafalgar Square, which is about his ongoing legal battle with a Syrian schoolboy.
He is due to appear in the High Court on Monday after being accused of contempt for making the 105-minute long program, which includes falss claims that Jamal Hijazi attacked girls in his school, after a video of the youngster being attacked in Huddersfield went viral.
He was later ordered to pay Hijazi £100,000 after making the allegations.
Robinson is also suspected of breaching an injunction which banned the 41-year-old from repeating any of the claims made in the film.
After showing the film to protestors in London, the rifar-Right activist posted on X: “I’ll be jailed for two years for showing the inconceivable truth.”
Tommy Robinson’s march brought thousands of people to London’s streets (Image: Getty)
Crowds could be heard chanting “Rule Britannia”, “We want our country back” as well as Tommy Robinson’s name, while others held placards that read “Not far right, just right”.
Several Israeli flags were also being flown, along with Union Jacks, as well as Scottish and Welsh flags on a day of violence as a small number of protestors caused disruption around the city.
The Met Police confirmed that two arrests were made after a counter protestor from the “Stand Up To Racism” group was attacked in Victoria Embankment Gardens.
The protest organised by Tommy Robinson has now ended.
Nearby pubs are busy with people who had been at the protest and officers will remain in the area to keep people safe and to respond to any incidents.
So far today there have been five arrests:
1 member of the public… pic.twitter.com/vFfA0MXK8v
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) July 27, 2024
He was rushed to hospital “to be checked” after sustaining a head injury which required first aid from officers.
A spokesperson for the force said: “We are aware of some suggestions on social media that the arrests were related to the carrying of a flag which is not the case.”
A further four people were arrested outside a pub in Whitehall on suspicion of assaulting emergency workers,.
Elsewhere, one man was held on suspicion of criminal damage after allegedly snapping a Palestinian flag and making a racially abusive remark, while another was arrested on suspicion of kicking a police officer.
The force added that there were around 1,000 police officers deployed on the streets of London to keep order on a day of several protests spread across the city.
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A number of arrests were made after counter protestors were ‘assaulted’ (Image: Getty)
Ahead of the march, Mr Robinson claimed that the protest would be “the biggest patriotic rally the UK has ever seen”.
Meanwhile, a counter-protest by Stand Up To Racism and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace & Justice Project marched from Russell Square and to a rally in Whitehall.
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