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https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-pimlico-hotel-protest-westminster-london-home-office
Migrants staying at a hotel in central London last night barricaded the entrance and staged a protest over “inhuman conditions”.
Around 25 migrants refused to return to their rooms on Thursday.
The asylum seekers – originally from Bangladesh, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq and Somalia – have been housed at the Comfort Inn in Pimlico….
The protest looks set to continue until migrants are given single rooms….
A 27-year-old Iranian told The Telegraph: “Two square metres is not enough for sleeping four people. And when you go to the toilet, the smell damages you.”
A 21-year-old Kurdish migrant added: “When we checked on Google Maps, we said, oh this is very nice.
“But when you get in, it’s like a jail. And they treat you very, very bad. They treat you like an animal.”…
The migrants were transferred to the three-star hotel as the Home Office continues with its attempts to cut its £6million-a-day cost of housing some 50,000 asylum seekers in hotels.
Migrants also receive £45 a week or £9.10 a week if they get bed and board….
