Police arrested, on Saturday July 5 in London, demonstrators who supported the militant group Palestine Action, prohibited on Friday by British justice under anti -terrorist laws. “Agents intervened during a support for support for Palestine Action Place du Parliament. This group is now prohibited and supporting it is a criminal offense. Arrests are underway “said metropolitan police on X.
In a statement, the action group Defend Our Judies said that twenty-seven people, including a priest and health professionals, had been arrested for offenses to the Terrorism Act. They held cardboard signs on which we could read: “I oppose the genocide. I support Palestine Action “selon Defend Our Juries.
Police had warned that expressing their support for Palestine Action would be an offense after the entry into force of the midnight ban. “This includes songs, wearing clothing or displaying items, such as flags, panels or logos”had said the police.
Intrusion at the British Air Base Norton
The High Court of London refused on Friday to suspend the ban on Palestine Action-approved by Parliament Thursday-which therefore joined the list of organizations considered terrorists in the United Kingdom on Saturday. Tensions with the police had already broken out in the afternoon before the court.
The government announced last week that it was going to prohibit Palestine Action under the law of 2000 on terrorism, a few days after activists from the group entered the Britic Norton air base, the most important of the Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom, where they had smeared red paint two military aircraft. Four people were charged with this intrusion and placed in pre -trial detention Thursday pending a hearing scheduled for July 18. The damage of this action was estimated at 7 million pounds (8 million euros) by the police.
United Nations experts criticized London’s decision this week, believing that “Simple material damage, without endangering the life of others, are not serious enough to be qualified as terrorism”.
