There are 30 gatherings planned tomorrow, police sources have told Sky News. Wednesday is expected to be a big day, with lawyers’ offices potentially being targeted, Sky News understands. Some 30% of trained riot cops are mobilised (6,000 officers), with sources saying police are better prepared than last week. Police...
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Downing Street is expected to hold a Cobra emergency response meeting this morning after hundreds of far right thugs were arrested in riots which saw attacks on police and buildings set alight on the sixth day of escalating disorder. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed rioters would ‘regret’ engaging in ‘far-right...
The threat from international and domestic terror presents a “breadth of challenge greater than it has ever been”, according to senior US and UK police officers who oversaw the successful prosecution of Anjem Choudary. The Islamist preacher from east London is starting a life sentence for directing a group banned under...
Nearly 40 police officers sustained injuries with 27 taken to hospital after an angry mob of suspected EDL members unleashed chaos on a residential street in Southport. The violent scenes erupted last night (July 30) close to where a knife attack which claimed the lives of three children took place. A major incident...
Anjem Choudary, the leader of the banned terror group al-Muhajiroun, has been jailed for life and may never leave prison alive. He was found guilty of directing the group and encouraging support for it through online meetings. The sentence means that Choudary cannot seek to leave jail on licence until...
Police have declared a “major incident” in Southport after reports of a stabbing and a “number of reported casualties”. Police said a knife had been seized and that a man had been detained but urged the public to avoid the area near Hart Street. In a statement, Merseyside Police said:...
Tommy Robinson has been released on bail after being arrested in Kent under ‘anti-terror laws’, a day after organising a mass demonstration in London. The far-right activist was detained by police at the Channel tunnel in Folkestone, prompting flag-waving protesters to storm Downing Street yesterday demanding his release. Chants of ‘release Tommy now’ and ‘we want...
An “ultra-left militant” was arrested in north-west France on Sunday after being found behaving suspiciously near a railway site, according to police sources quoted by French media. Officers who searched the man’s car found keys to technical premises, pliers, a set of universal keys and literature “linked to the ultra-left”....
An airport located at the Swiss-French border was evacuated on Friday for security reasons, hours after a a ‘massive, coordinated arson attack’ disrupted France‘s rail network just hours before the Olympics opening ceremony. ‘For safety reasons, the terminal had to be evacuated and is currently closed,’ the Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport said on its website. TiNYg...
Arsonists have carried out attacks on France’s high-speed train network causing major travel disruption ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. With the games set to get under way amid an unprecedented peacetime security operation, the state-owned railway operator SNCF said fires had been set at installations along the lines connecting the capital with...
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