Overview
- Rival demonstrations at Glasgow Green on Saturday escalated into street clashes that spread into the city centre with punches, projectiles and mounted police containments.
- Police arrested 15 people on charges that include assault, possession of offensive weapons, breach of the peace, obstruction and resisting arrest.
- Officers recovered weapons at the scene that they say indicate some attendees planned pre‑meditated disorder and have launched Operation Cornstarch to pursue further arrests and charges.
- Videos that circulated online showed what appeared to be Nazi‑style salutes, openly racist slogans and a separate clip of a group chasing a delivery driver and throwing a traffic cone at him; far‑right figures reshared the footage.
- Senior politicians condemned the scenes and a visible police presence remains in Glasgow as investigators review CCTV and public uploads to the Major Incident Public Portal with prosecutions likely to follow.