RAF base vandalism not enough to justify Palestine Action ban, says ex-minister | UK security and counter-terrorism
According to a former Justice Secretary, a pro -Palestinian group does not provide the only legal reason to ban a planes in a shelf base.
Interior Minister Yette Cooper is expected to ban Palestinian action on Friday in the days after an incident in Raf Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said that on Sunday, the British defense group of the British defense assets on Sunday was the “fourth attack ve and those who intervened for a while with the defense infrastructure should expect a“ very solid response ”.
“I can say that these people do not serve the Palestinian cause, which is noble,” he said in an interview with the BBC.
However, a movement report for the prohibition of the group that would enter into force as a terrorist organization was met with some criticisms such as MPs, International Amnesty International and former Scotland First Minister Humza Yousaf.
The Ministry of Defense (MOD) took over a Thames Valley police investigation by the Anti -Terrorist Police. Cooper is preparing a written ministry declaration to be placed in Parliament on Monday.
On Friday morning, the Palestinian Action released a short video that uses an unobstructed electric scooter in the night air base and showed that he sprayed two military aircraft.
The group said that the shelf used for transportation and fuel supply is targeting the Voyager plane and that “activists have interrupted their direct participation in the Genocide and War Crimes Commission in the Middle East”.
The event is the last action by the group in recent years, but at the same time, it is a especially embarrassing violation of mode security on a site that holds the transportation planes used by the King and the Prime Minister.
Former Justice Secretary Charlie Falconer said on Sunday, a “species show on the RAF would not justify Proscription,“ That’s why I don’t know. ”
When asked whether the group’s actions are proportional to the need to prohibit an organization, Tred on Sunday morning of Lord Falconer Sky News, Trevor Phillips said: “I am not aware of what the Palestinian action is doing beyond the picture of things beyond the picture of the planes in Norton.”
“I think the question will probably not know about them, but those who look at these things we don’t know would have to be known, because I mean, they will be able to claim that they have the ability to make them dangerous.”
“Palestinian action protesters are expected to be tried for criminal damage for painting at the airbase of Palestinian action protesters, including John McDonnell, a member of the MP and former workers shadow.
During a protest march in London on Saturday, Yousaf accused the British government of “abuse of terrorism against the Palestinian action. Later in X, he said: “If the United Kingdom government believes that those who protest against the atrocities in Gaza are terrorists, but the children who killed should be supported and provided with a gun, then this government did not just lose its way, lost its conscience.”
International Amnesty International, England, “to target protest groups, the use of anti -terrorism forces are very worried about the use of,” he said.
The Palestinian action was founded in 2020 by his father Huda Ammori of Palestinian and Richard Barnard, a leftist activist. Focusing on its campaigns on multinational arms vendors and corporate banks, the organization recently targeted a factory in Shenstone, Staffordshire and claimed that it has made drones for the Israeli army.
The Minister of the Interior has been the focus of lobbying by groups forcing the prohibition of the Palestinian action. The campaign against anti -Semitism said it has recently written to it, the ban on the Palestinian action in accordance with the 2000 Law of Terrorism and that it provided a file in the group.
