Met Police make 175 arrests

A total of 175 people were arrested in the center of London during protests supporting the banned group of metropolitan police.

The organizers defended our juries, said hundreds of people participated in demonstrations supporting Palestinian action – a group banned by the government in July showed illegal support or commitment to them illegally.

After the deadly synagogue attack in Manchester on Thursday, the demonstrations continued despite the calls of the ministers and the police who wanted to postpone the protests.

Sir Keir Starmer called for “respect for the grief of the British Jews”, while criticizing the protests of Jewish figures.

Our jury member, Sir Jonathon Porritt, said that he was “undoubtedly”, “Everyone who is on the quiet watch today will show great respect and real grief for those affected by the absolute persecution in Heaton Park.”

“I do not think that we should give up the right to stand up for those who are devastated by a real -time genocide in Gaza,” the prince of Wales Radio 4 said: “This is ongoing in Gaza.”

Authorized, “increasing the levels of increased levels of anti -Semitism” will have the deepest concern, “he added.

Before the demonstrations, Met police said he would place 1,500 officers in Trafalgar Square to deal with protesters.

In an update made in the afternoon on Saturday, MET said that most of the arrested were detained for gathering in Trafalgar Square; Six was arrested for the emergence of a banner supporting the banned group on the Westminster Bridge in the early hours of the day.

The force said that every arrest took time because “Many of those arrested will not leave the square and have to be moved”.

Met said it was a process that requires at least five civil servants to do it safely.

On Friday, Met wrote to defend our jury to express his concerns about the amount of police resources where the protest would deviate at a time when “visible assurance and preventive security” for communities.

However, the group, which led the demonstrations against the ban of the Palestinian action, challenged these calls and continued the protest.

A few minutes before the main event starts in Trafalgar Square, he argues that our juries managed to hold two posters on the north of the Westminster Bridge: “I oppose the genocide” and “support the Palestinian action”.

Met said that the officers had released the banners after minutes and arrested that they supported a banned organization.

A similar event organized by Palestinian Greater Manchester Friends, approximately 100 pro -Palestinian supporters came together before the Manchester Cathedral of a crowd before March.

The protests were made just a few days after two Jewish men – Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz – Killed after Jihad Al-Shamie The Heaton Park in Manchester drove a car to people other than the Hebrew community synagogue.

Knifeman then tried to force him to enter the synagogue before he was killed by the armed police. Three people were injured in the attack.

Before the demonstrations, the community security (CST) charity, which provides security for the Jewish community, told the BBC Radio 4 to the Today’s Today.

Dave Rich said: “For many people who claim to care about human rights and care about freedoms, police resources are distracted from going to the synagogue in terms of security in terms of safety to support a banned terrorist organization that is not the same as to live the lives of the Jewish people and to go to the Synagogue and to support Palestinians.

“The two are not the same. And I think it’s extremely absorbed and insensitive to say at least.”

In order to support the Palestinian action, the group called “to” prioritize society “rather than arrest peacefully prisoner signs.

The government banned Palestinian action in July after the activists entered the base of a shelf and damaged two military aircraft at the beginning of the year.

In various protests since then, Hundreds of people were arrested for supporting the groupHe won permission to challenge the ban.