2025-07-23
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Today, could violent unrest outside an Essex asylum hotel spark another summer of riots?
Hello, Jonathan Friedland here, host of the Guardian's Politics Weekly America podcast.
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The Bell Hotel in Epping Forest is probably not on anyone's bucket list.
Situated on a busy B road a mile away from the nearest tube station guests have complained of broken TVs,
tired decor and unreliable hot water.
But for the past two weeks this shabby three-star hotel has been the focus of far more serious protests.
The outcry began when one of the hotel residents was charged with sexual assault.
The man, a 41-year-old from Ethiopia,
had allegedly tried to touch and kiss a 14-year-old girl as she ate a pizza in Epping Town Centre.
He'd been living in the hotel since arriving in the UK as an asylum seeker at the end of June,