英国肯特郡和汉普郡周末发生极右翼抗议活动，引发政府对警方情报能力的质疑。1肯特郡警察承认周五晚间收到了抗议预警，但未能充分评估形势的严重性。1周六，数百名蒙面黑衣人在多夫港聚集，汉普郡的朴茨茅斯港在周日也发生了类似抗议。1
抗议的组织者包括与极右翼激进分子斯蒂芬·亚克斯利-林农有关联的丹尼尔·托马斯。1警方观察到这些抗议者"完美地踩着界线以避免被捕"，他们携带律师电话号码并熟悉公共秩序案例法。1
英国皇家救生艇协会（RNLI）志愿者成为抗议活动的骚扰和威胁对象。1此前RNLI救生艇在英吉利海峡救起120名寻求庇护者后，被拒绝进入两个港口。1随后，抗议者在社交媒体上点名追踪RNLI志愿者，分享他们的照片并试图找到其住址。1RNLI首席执行官彼得·斯帕克斯对此回应称，对志愿者的辱骂"在文明社会中完全不可接受"。1
Far-right demonstrators staged coordinated protests at English ports over the weekend, prompting authorities to acknowledge significant failures in threat assessment and prompting demands for improved intelligence gathering. Hundreds of masked protesters gathered at Dover in Kent on Saturday and Portsmouth in Hampshire on Sunday to oppose illegal immigration, with police later admitting they had received advance warning but failed to adequately evaluate the situation 1.
Kent Police acknowledged receiving notification of the protest on Friday evening without conducting sufficient risk assessment 1. The demonstrations at Dover were characterized by protesters who, according to police observations, "walked a perfect line to avoid arrest" while carrying lawyers' contact information and demonstrating knowledge of public order law 1. The protest organizers included Daniel Thomas, who maintains connections with far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon 1.
The unrest extended beyond the streets to harassment of humanitarian workers. Following a rescue operation in the English Channel in which the Royal National Lifeboat Institution saved 120 asylum seekers, the charity's vessels were denied entry to two ports 1. RNLI volunteers subsequently faced targeted abuse and intimidation on social media, with protesters sharing photographs and attempting to locate their home addresses 1. RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparks responded to the harassment, stating that such abuse directed at volunteers was "completely unacceptable in a civilized society" 1. The government has now directed police to enhance their intelligence-gathering capabilities in response to the weekend events 1.
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