DYFED-POWYS POLICE have confirmed that they have arrested five asylum seekers at Penally camp on Tuesday night for assault (Nov 10).
The former MoD camp has housed up to 250 asylum seekers since September after being repurposed by the Home Office.
Eye witnesses reported shortly before 10 pm, that there was a large police presence at the facility, called in to assist security with a disturbance.
A spokesperson for Dyfed-Powys Police said: “During the evening of Tuesday, November 10, a disturbance was reported at the Penally Asylum Accommodation Centre.
“Officers attended and five males were arrested for minor assaults. There are no suspects outstanding and enquiries are ongoing.”
One person who witnessed the scene, stated that a female police officer was seen leaving the camp after arrests had been made carrying out a ‘bent out of shape’ metal hoover pipe.
It’s the latest incident at the facility to require a large police presence attend.
Two men were arrested from the camp on October 20 – one on suspicion of affray, and the other of assault, after a disturbance within the Asylum Accommodation Centre that saw over a dozen
police vehicles in attendance.
The two males were later released on police bail with the condition not to enter Pembrokeshire.
Last month, during Wales’ ‘fire-break’ lock-down police were also forced to warn asylum seekers staying at the Penally facility to return to the camp after breaking Covid-19 restrictions
on the night of October 27, after a number of men from the facility were seen to be ‘shouting and drinking’ whilst walking ‘arm in arm’ through the village one evening, in what one local
resident described as seemingly a protest against the Welsh Government’s regulations.
In late September, days after the asylum seekers arrived in Pembrokeshire, a man arrested on suspicion of arson at the Penally asylum centre was dealt with by ‘adult community resolution’
and no further charges will be brought.
Others have been arrested in connection with demonstrations against the asylum seekers being at the camp.
