Police have ‘no choice’ but to arrest Palestine Action supporters, Met chief says
Metropolitan police announced before a weekend action, including a large rally supporting the Palestinian action.
Deputy Commissioner Adelekanan said that power is not a “option ,, and there is nothing more than arresting protesters who challenged terrorist laws by supporting the ban.
Up to 1000 people are expected to participate in a peaceful demonstration in Parliament Square on Saturday: orum I oppose the genocide. I support the Palestinian action. ”
In a similar protest last month, after the arrest of more than 500, he forced the police to operate a street bail system as he handcuffed hundreds of protesters.
Since Mr. Adelekan said that the forces had all the resources they need to make mass arrests if necessary, he made any attempt to crush the policing for “absolutely not to work”.
“I will definitely clarify for you, and if I do not make any reservations about it, if someone supports the Palestinian action – a crime in accordance with the law of terrorism – they will be arrested.”
“There is no doubt about this. We have civil servants, we have all resources to commit as many people as necessary.”
He revealed that he could access emergency cells outside London if necessary.
The Operation Chief Inspector Helen Flanagan, the President of the Operation for the Anti -Terror Command of Met, called on those who are considering supporting the Palestinian action.
“We will investigate and prosecute everything that we suspect that we have committed a crime in accordance with the law of terrorism, ve and added that many of those arrested in previous demonstrations are now facing a potential terrorist conviction.
On Friday, the protest organizers defended our juries, today at 13:00 at Westminster, before the protest, he sent a letter to meet the commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and called to his officers not to arrest the protesters, he said.
Edinburgh said that the police forces in Totnes, Derry and Kendall have decided not to arrest the sign holders.
The letter said: “The arrest of peaceful and legally acted in front of the world press does not need to repeat in a shameful way.
“When it becomes hundreds of thousands, perhaps it is time to put a limit on your losses and give a rightful rest to hardworking and over -stretched men and women?”
In July, the group demanded responsibility for an action in which two Voyager planes were damaged in Raf Brize Norton in June.
Supporting the direct action group means that it is a crime that can be sentenced to up to 14 years in prison.
The Ministry of Interior will appeal the Supreme Court decision, which allows Palestinian Action, the founding partner of Huda Ammori, on the ban of the group, to progress with a legal difficulty against the government.
The protest on Saturday, Met’s conflict in Gaza, the prohibition of the Palestinian action and the increase in the debate on the use of households to asylum seekers as “especially intense” protest comes after defining.
A separate walk by the Palestinian coalition will begin at noon in the center of London, and a national march against anti -Semitism in the capital on Sunday.
Met, only in the last three months, 62,829 officers said they used shifts for police protests and that they used more assets of 19,461 officers foreseen in September.
Adelekan said that this month’s power cost was £ 10 million this month.
