Flintshire council accused of discrimination after hiring security firm to enforce restrictions at caravan site

A council has been accused of discrimination for hiring a private security firm to enforce coronavirus restrictions at a caravan site after some residents tested positive.

Security guards monitored dozens of Traveller families at the Riverside site in Queensferry, north Wales, between 20 and 22 January, demanding their reasons for entering and leaving, according to Liberty Investigates, an investigative journalism unit of the human rights organisation Liberty.

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