Nearly 400 people were arrested in about a dozen cities across the United Kingdom over the weekend during riots that followed the murder of three young children in the town of Southport. The deadly knife attack was wrongly blamed on a Muslim immigrant, sparking anti-immigration riots. The World’s Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports on what the British prime minister has called “far-right thuggery.”
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