The London Metropolitan Police (Met Police, in English) reported on social network X that had made at least 200 arrests in a demonstration in the British Parliament Square A favor of Palestine Actionrecently illegal by the Labor Government for carrying out disruptive and violent actions.
“At 15:40 British time (14:40 GMT), the number of arrests for showing support to a banned organization was 200, with more to arrive,” confirmed the Met Police, which pointed out four additional arrests for attacks on police officers.
Since last July, Palestine Action is categorized by law as “terrorist organization” in the United Kingdomafter vandalizing two aircraft in a military base of the Royal British Air Force (RAF) or blocking the entry of the headquarters of the Israeli Defense Company Elbit Systems in Bristol (southwest of England).
This proscription implies that Being a member of the Propalescene Group, or showing support to it, is now typified as a criminal offense which can lead up to 14 years in prison, under the law of terrorism of the year 2000.
Despite this, Between 500 and 600 people – according to the method they congregated in front of Parliamentconvened by the defend Our juries association, with posters in which you could read “I oppose genocide. Support for Palestine Action”according to photographs published on social networks.
“In A collective act of resistance, people are risking their freedom for our civil rights and for the Palestinian people, “Defund Our Juries wrote in X.
The MET said that all those people who had shown a poster in support of the propalestine group had been arrested or were in the process of being.
He also explained that All these people were transferred to district processing points And those who confirmed their identity were released with bond, with the condition of not returning to any protest of support to Palestine Action, and those who refused to do so were taken to police units in different areas of London.
A “intense” weekend of protests
The MET has reinforced its police device, with agents from other cities in the United Kingdom, for an intense weekend of protests in the British capital and with the precedent of other prior demonstrations in favor of Palestine Action that also resulted in more than a hundred arrests.
In parallel to the protest in the Plaza del Parliament, from the Plaza de Russell, next to the British Museum, it left with hundreds of thousands of participants – according to the organizers, Palestine Solidarity Campaign – the call National March by Palestine in the direction of Downing Streetplace of the official residence of the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
In this march, with a peaceful and independent cut to that of the Perposty group, there has only been an arrest As indicated by the MET, also for showing a support sign for Palestine Action.
The rest of the participants, from children to elderly people, marched through the streets of downtown London carrying Palestine flags, as well as banners in which they asked for the end of the famine in Gaza, they called the United Kingdom to be “complicit of the genocide” of Israel in the strip, or pointed out that “bombing children is not an act of self -defense.”
The demonstrations occur after the security cabinet of the Israeli Executive of Benjamín Netanyahu gave a green light this Friday to a new military operation in the strip to take control of the city of Gaza, a decision harshly criticized by the leaders of the international community
