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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Neha Gohil Midlands correspondent

Disinformation was ‘central accelerant’ in Leicester Hindu-Muslim clashes, inquiry finds

Police block Muslim protesters from marching along Belgrave Road in Leicester amid clashes with the Hindu community.
Police block rival protesters in Leicester amid clashes between Muslim-Hindu residents in September 2022. Photograph: Andrew Fox/The Guardian

Violence between Hindus and Muslims in Leicester in 2022 was fuelled by online disinformation and met with a failure of leadership from the city’s mayor, council and police, an independent inquiry has said.

Researchers from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics carried out the study after the unrest between predominantly young Hindu and Muslim men in Leicester between May and September 2022.

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