Migrants barricade London hotel after being denied private rooms
Asylum seekers say they will sleep on the pavement outside Pimlico Comfort Inn in protest against being treated ‘like animals’
Migrants are staging a pavement protest after deciding the hotel they have been transferred to was nothing like the “nice” accommodation they saw on Google Maps.
Instead of the single rooms with en suite bathrooms that they had in their Essex hotel, they found they were being forced to share – four to a single room with two bunk beds and a “smelly” toilet – in a hotel in central London. ---More...
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