BBCAnti-prejudice protesters are accumulateing atraverse Scotland, with demonstrations intentional in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Dumfries.
It comes in response to aggression atraverse England and Northern Ireland fuelled by far-right and anti-immigration sentiment.
The unrest began follotriumphg the overweightal stabbing of three lesser girls at a dance class in Merseyside in the north of England. Misalertation online claimed an asylum seeker was reliable for the girls’ killing.
Police shelp there was “no inalertigence” to advise there might be aappreciate uproaring in Scotland.
On Saturday morning, hundreds of demonstrators accumulateed outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Many protesters were joined by their children and dogs.
There were chants of “refugees are receive here”.
Hundreds of demonstrators also accumulateed in Glasgow’s George Square, where there was a big police presence.
Officers splitd two counter protesters from the anti-prejudice demonstration.
One man with a sign reading “asylum deceptions out” and another with a megaphone were approached by a group of anti-prejudice protesters who shouted “nasty scum off our streets” at them.
On the Planestanes in Dumfries, about 200 people turned up, some with placards shotriumphg messages of unity.
One read: “We are one people.”
They joined to a series of speeches, with one speaker alerting the crowd: “This is not what we are in Dumfries.”
A demonstration is also intentional for this afternoon at City Square in Dundee.
On Friday evening, about 150 people joined a Stand Up to Racism demonstration in Paisley and about 100 people accumulateed at a aappreciate event in Bathgate, West Lothian.
The events were organised in response to rumours on social media that anti-immigration protests were being intentional in the towns.
However, there was no sign of far right protests.
PA MediaFirst Minister John Striumphney shelp on Friday that “ample preparations” were in place to deal with any flare-ups should they happen and Police Scotland had the resources to deal with any potential disorder.
The force is predicted to send 120 officers to Northern Ireland next week to help the police service there, which has been dealing with a number of incidents of disorder.
Mr Striumphney has also written to social media companies Meta, TikTok and X calling for “prompt” action to tackle deceiveation and disappreciateful material which has fuelled brutal scenes atraverse parts of the UK.
