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Police have launched an investigation after a man threatened to throw two Pro-Brexit protesters from a bridge in Exeter city centre.

The heated kick-off happened on the Yaroslavl Footbridge over Western Way, as Frankie Rufolo and Alison Sheridan waved signs encouraging drivers to 'Hoot for Brexit.'

Earlier this month, the same protest was attended outspoken Right Wing campaigner and television personality Katie Hopkins. She tweeted a photograph of herself alongside Frankie with the 'Hoot' signage.

In the clip above, protester Frankie, wrapped in a Union Flag and looking over the railings with a sign, is approach by a man who grabs him around "by his ribs."

Fellow protester Alison, UKIP chair for Exeter and Leave Means Leave campaigner, tells the man she intends to call the police.

It is at this point she is told "I'll throw you over the f**king bridge." A heated political slanging match follows between the three people.

The man calls them "traitors to the country" and "racists." He also tells them: "You have done more harm to this country than Hitler."

The bridge is named after an Exeter twin city, northeast of Moscow in Russia.

Frankie Rufolo said: "I was at the bridge holding [my sign] up so people passing below could see. When suddenly someone came up behind me and grabbed me by my ribs which made me jump out of my skin.

"This guy was shouting saying he wanted to throw us from the bridge, he threatened Alison and said he wanted to throw her off the bridge. He was wearing a badge with the EU symbol which said love, ironically.

"There was so much hatred coming from this one guy."

A spokesperson for Devon & Cornwall Police said: "Police are investigating reports of an assault which took place on a pedestrian footbridge in Exeter at around 11.37am on Tuesday February 26.

"It was reported than a man had approached another man who was standing on the bridge and threatened to push him.

"The man left the area and officers attended to carry out a search but he was not located. The victim was uninjured."

Anyone who witnessed the incident any anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting CR/017576/19.

Watch below: Akusib Sheridan and Frankie Rufolo tell us what happened