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Anarchists 'plan to target royal wedding'
Violent anarchists who rampaged through London during anti-cuts protests areplanning to target the royal wedding, police intelligence have suggested.
B y Stev en Swinford, and Tom Whitehead 10:36PM BST 27 Mar 2011
Scotland Yard officers are working urgently to identify the extremists who
clashed with police and attacked landmarks on Saturday before they can
strike again.
Commander Bob Broadhurst, the head of public order for the
Metropolitan Police, warned that the anarchists would be "deliberatelytargeting" the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29.
"The concern for me is that they do what they did yesterday in central
London and divert resources away from my security plan and take our
eye off the ball security wise," he said.
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, was under fire last night for speaking at
the TUC march, during which the violence occurred. Writing in The Daily
Telegraph , Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, said Mr Miliband would
have been "quietly satisfied" by the chaos and claimed it was not
surprising there was violence as Labour was failing to offer any
alternative to the cuts.
The weekend's rally against the Government's austerity drive was
marred by splinter groups who attacked officers and targeted shops and
hotels. Mobs of masked anarchists pelted officers with sticks, paint
bombs and fireworks loaded with coins.
They brought chaos to Oxford Street and Piccadilly, the capital's busiest
shopping streets, where they started fires, smashed their way into banks
and shops, including Fortnum and Mason, the department store, and
Topshop, and attacked the Ritz hotel.
More than 200 people were arrested and 31 police officers were injured,
including 11 who were taken to hospital.
The anarchists ended the day in Trafalgar Square, where they set fire to
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banners and threw missiles and broken bottles at officers.
Police are sifting through CCTV and surveillance photographs in an
attempt to identify the most violent protesters. They estimate that a hard
core of 500 protesters were involved in the violence. Commander
Broadhurst said a number of groups had warned that they would be
"deliberately targeting" the royal wedding.
He told The Daily Telegraph : "That has been on my radar for a long time.
I will have different powers at my disposal to ensure that the wedding
footprint as it were is kept safe from protest.
"I'm dealing with a security operation in a city under a terrorist threat. We
will be putting in sterile zones, using counter-terrorist powers, closingroads and [using] stop and search powers.
"Yesterday reinforced the fact that there does appear to be an appetite
out there to endorse violence.”
Referring to Saturday’s disturbances, he added: “These are criminal
acts, every one of these buildings is being treated as a crime scene and
we will get a lot of CCTV back.
“I would say that if you were involved in the violence then the chance is
that we will be arresting you in the near future.”
But he also admitted that his officers struggled to keep up with the
violence as the Met faced criticism from some quarters over its handling
of the event.
He said: “They never allowed themselves to get stopped or detained by
us. I would describe it as hit-and-run tactics, they were always just ahead
of us getting sufficient protective resources there to stop them.
“They were using light bulbs filled with ammonia, petrol bombs and
smoke flares. Any one of these can kill not just a police officer but a
member of the public. These people are willing to resort to this naked
violence in front of cameras. It is almost as if they have no fear of judicial
process in this country.”
Brian Paddick, a former deputy assistant commissioner with the Met, said
the police should have made more use of their powers to unmaskprotesters and stop and search them for weapons.
He said: “They have got to take people out on the day, not take photos
and arrest them later. Only if these people believe they will get caught
because they will be unmasked and arrested will they desist from
carrying out these attacks.”
Commander Broadhurst insisted that police had been unable to find
sufficient evidence to arrest people before the marches. He said: “We
are not a police state, we are not the thought police, we cannot read
people’s minds.”
Last night two of the 201 people arrested in connection with the disorder
were charged. Omar Ibrahim, 31, from Glasgow, was charged with violentdisorder and assaulting a police officer.
A 17-year-old boy was charged with possessing an offensive weapon
and being equipped for criminal damage.
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