‘A minority inside a minority’: fear and conspiracy theories in the Leeds Roma community

Mounted police on a street in Harehills on the morning after the disturbance. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

“A child died at the weekend,” a Roma woman in Harehills, Leeds, said on Monday. “Police came to take him and he jumped out of an upstairs window and died. The authorities have covered it up.”

Where has she heard this? “TikTok.”