East Leicester saw some of its worst religious violence in years on Saturday night when huge mobs of South Asian-origin Muslims faced off against British-Indian Hindus. Missiles were thrown and police officers hit while police dogs had to be drafted in as police lines tried to prevent both sides fighting each other. Although community leaders and the police called for calm, large groups had gathered on Belgrave Road on Sunday night -- as TOI was going to press -- and a huge police operation was once again in place. Locals told TOI that Saturday’s violence began when Muslims in Birmingham organised a “peaceful protest” in Leicester, for which a poster was created -- which TOI has seen -- mentioning a meeting point in Birmingham. The poster says: “We going to land in Lesta show these RSS Hindutva extremist not to mess with our Muslim and Sikh women, children and elderly.” Anger was apparently triggered by a fake social media post claiming three Hindu youths were trying to kidnap a young Muslim girl. The poster triggered a huge march by Hindu youths down Belgrave Road. That spiralled into violence when the two sides met, causing huge numbers of police to be drafted in to keep the gangs -- many in masks and balaclavas -- apart.