The Home Office have said around 50 asylum seekers would board the ship, with the numbers rising to its maximum capacity over the coming months, despite safety concerns raised by some of the county's Conservative MPs and locals.
Protesters blocked the route from a Best Western Hotel in PeckhamA bus firm which refused to transport asylum seekers from a hotel to the Bibby Stockholm barge thought they would get 'negative publicity', a court heard.
The court was told that the group was 'three layers deep and fortified with push bikes and hire bikes' in the road. She said she sat, joined other protesters and started joining chants of 'this is what community looks like'. The Bibby Stockholm: A People's Inquiry spoke to a number of former residents for first-hand accounts of what life was like on the vessel.
When police first arrived at the scene, a number of people were surrounding the coach which was in a bus lane, but traffic was able to move freely down the road initially, Superintendent Matt Cox said. About four hours after the protest started when arrests were being made, 'there was a lot of pushing and shoving going on with police officers trying to remove protesters, but also protesters trying to stop police officers undertaking their lawful duty', Mr Cox said.
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