Far-right activist Tommy Robinson is attacked by a mob during Facebook livestream while walking to a football match

  • In the video Robinson complains about banners opposing a far-right group
  • He is then heard arguing and scuffling with people out of the camera's view
  • Next a voice is heard in the footage shouting 'where's the f*****g bodyguard'

By Brendan Mcfadden For Mailonline

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Far-right activist Tommy Robinson was attacked while livestreaming a video on Facebook as he was on his way to watch Luton Town football club play.

In the video recorded yesterday ahead of Luton's home game against Plymouth Argyle  Robinson, 35, is seen walking down a road accompanied by two men.

Luton fan Robinson is heard complaining that banners in the crowd, which were protesting about far-right group Football Lads Alliance, were politicising football.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is then heard arguing with people off camera, before being confronted by two men.  

A scuffle is heard and the broadcast is briefly interrupted.

When the broadcast resumes a voice is heard shouting 'where's the f*****g bodyguard' amid lots of swearing. 

Then the video, which has since been deleted from Robinson's Facebook page, ends.

Later the Football Lads & Lasses against Fascism group tweeted: 'Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson turned up at Luton Town today for a Luton firm get together. He arrived with a team of bouncers. He was confronted and told he's not welcome by #LUTONFLAF.'

A scuffle is heard off camera and the broadcast is briefly interrupted 

In the video, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is heard arguing with people off camera, before being confronted by two men

After Robinson insisted what he said was 'they're not my f*****g bodyguards'.

'My point is that I have never brought the EDL's politics to Luton Town Football Club,' he said.

'What I was saying to them was keep your politics out of the football.

'I was in town with my friends eight of whom were black. Just because they're black people say they're bodyguards. I've never had bodyguards.'

He said the group with whom he can he seem arguing had the banner and 'were being aggressive'.  

Robinson also posted a picture on his Facebook page of what appeared to be a Football Lads & Lasses against Fascism group leaflet and claimed that it was being handed out at the Luton match.

A scuffle is heard off camera and the broadcast is briefly interrupted

A scuffle is heard off camera and the broadcast is briefly interrupted

When the broadcast resumes a voice is heard shouting 'where's the f*****g bodyguard' amid lots of swearing 

When the broadcast resumes a voice is heard shouting 'where's the f*****g bodyguard' amid lots of swearing 

He complained that the leaflet was 'full of lies' and that the group had tried to turn a lad's day out into a political stunt.  

In 2011, Robinson, the former leader of far-right group the English Defence League, was convicted of using 'threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour' during a 100-man fight between football supporters in Luton.

In May this year Robinson was jailed for filming people involved in a criminal trial at Leeds Crown Court and then broadcasting the footage on social media.

The judge in the case deemed Robinson's actions to be illegal according to a court law know as Contempt of Court.

He was then released from prison in August after three appeal judges quashed a finding made by the judge.  

The case was adjourned until October 23 and it has now been referred to the Attorney General.

 

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