Detainees with weapons cause disturbance at immigration centre
The scene of the action: Harmondsworth immigration removal centre.
A power outage at a London immigration removal centre seems to have given detainees the opportunity to cause trouble.
According to the BBC,
a group of detainees left their rooms and went into the courtyard at the immigration centre armed with various weaponry.
Police officers arrived at 7.45am and Prison Service officers were also there. The detainees involved were returned to their rooms and nobody was injured.
But why did it happen?
Was the incident connected with complaints about the Manston immigrant processing centre, a concentration camp in Kent where conditions were compared with prison by one inmate who wrote a message in a bottle and managed to pass it to the press.
The chief inspector of prisons reported filthy cell toilets, problems with pests and dilapidated communal showers.
Other concerns raised included high levels of vulnerability among detainees, people assessed to be at risk of harm being held for too long and detainees being locked in their cells during lunch and overnight.
Diseases including diphtheria are also said to be present, but the sick – along with people who are pregnant – were said to be treated with nothing more than Paracetomol, according to the ‘message in a bottle’.
And this small disturbance kicked off, the instant the power went down.
Earlier this year, the UK was facing the threat of widespread power cuts due to low fuel supplies.
That threat seems to have subsided now, but what if it hadn’t? How many more such disturbances would we have been facing – and how bad would they have been?
The people involved in this one were said to have had weapons – what exactly were they and how did these people come to have them?
Even if we had the answers to these questions, it seems clear that there are many reasons for concern here.
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Home Office officials lied again by claiming ‘detainees were armed with various weaponry!’ Then these same Home Office officials retracted their lies and said detainees did not have any ‘weapons!’ So don’t believe the fascist Home Office lies!
In reality some detainees were rightfully protesting at the callous and cruel conditions being inflicted on them by the fascist Home Office!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/05/detainees-at-harmondsworth-removal-centre-stage-protest-during-power-cut