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More than 70 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after clashes with police in London

Scuffles caught on camera after demonstrators broke through police lines resulting in highest number of arrests over more than 20 marches

More than 70 pro-Palestinian protesters have been arrested in Trafalgar Square on suspicion of breaching protest conditions after demonstrators broke through a police line as they marched from a rally in Whitehall.

The Metropolitan Police warned the group to disperse or face arrest, later announcing 77 people had been arrested – the highest number across more than 20 national Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) protests since October 2023.

Some 65 had been detained for a breach of conditions, five for public order offences, two for obstructing police, one for supporting a proscribed organisation, one for inciting racial hatred, one for common assault, one for assault on an emergency worker and one for sexual assault.

Commander Adam Slonecki, who led the policing operation, said: “We have policed more than 20 national protests organised by the PSC since October 2023.

“This is the highest number of arrests we have seen, in response to the most significant escalation in criminality.”

He accused the organisers of the march of a “deliberate effort to breach the conditions”.

“We could not have been clearer about the conditions in place. Protesters were to remain in Whitehall with no march towards the BBC,” Mr Slonecki said.

“Our relationship with protest organisers has to be based on trust and good faith. If they say they will act responsibly and lawfully we need to be able to know those are genuine assurances.

“That is why it was so deeply disappointing to see a deliberate effort, involving organisers of the demonstration, to breach the conditions and attempt to march out of Whitehall.

“Officers responded bravely and decisively, ensuring they got no further than Trafalgar Square and certainly nowhere near their target.

“I am quite confident this was a co-ordinated breach with the intention being to reach the BBC at Portland Place in defiance of the conditions.

“There is video footage of one of the organisers clearly inciting the crowd to join a march and one of the organisations involved has released a statement this evening confirming as much.

“At the same time as the group was attempting to force its way past police lines, camera crews were seen arriving in Portland Place. It is unlikely that the timing was simply a coincidence.

“We are in possession of footage from officers’ body-worn cameras, from CCTV and from social media. We know who was involved in leading the movement of so many people through police lines.

“Investigations are now under way and we will make every effort to bring prosecutions against those we identify.”

One masked activist stood on top of a police car waving a Palestinian flag after protesters breached the police line.

Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, and John McDonnell, the party’s former shadow chancellor, were seen among the crowds but are not thought to have been among those defying police.

The unrest followed threats by the PSC to defy the Met’s ban on marching past the BBC offices.

The group had been planning to gather outside the corporation’s headquarters in Portland Place, before marching to Whitehall. However, the Met imposed restrictions under the Public Order Act to prevent them from doing so, following an intervention from the Chief Rabbi, amid fears worshippers at a nearby synagogue could be harassed.

Members of the public found themselves caught up in the demonstration. One person who asked a police officer why people could not move was told: “Because it’s an illegal march at the moment.”

Police warned the group to disperse or face arrest.

Before the protest, Ben Jamal, the PSC director, said the group had faced “extreme repression” from police in organising the demonstration.

“Until two days ago, they were trying to impose on us a march endorsed by the British Board of Deputies,” he said in a piece to camera posted on social media.

“We decide where we protest, not Zionist groups that have supported Israel’s genocide.”

The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) criticised the Met’s decision to block the march, calling it “an outrageous assault on democracy, freedom of assembly and freedom of expression”.

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