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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:21 am
Piers Corbyn arrested on suspicion of calling for MPs’ offices to be burned down
Sun 19 Dec 2021 10.29 GMT
Piers Corbyn has been arrested on suspicion of encouraging people to burn down MPs’ offices.
The Metropolitan police said the man in his 70s – whom it did not name – was arrested in Southwark, south London, in the early hours of Sunday.
“The arrest relates to a video posted online in which people were encouraged to burn down MPs’ offices,” the force said. Earlier, the Met said it was assessing a video that appears to show Corbyn, 74, calling for MPs’ offices to be burned down.
The video, shared on social media, shows Corbyn, a prominent anti-lockdown protester, criticising politicians who voted for Covid restrictions.
After urging the crowd to “hammer to death those scum who have decided to go ahead with introducing new fascism”, Corbyn, the brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, appears to tell a crowd in the video: “You’ve got to get a list of them … and if your MP is one of them, go to their offices and, well, I would recommend burning them down, OK. But I can’t say that on air. I hope we’re not on air.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... urned-down
Sun 19 Dec 2021 10.29 GMT
Piers Corbyn has been arrested on suspicion of encouraging people to burn down MPs’ offices.
The Metropolitan police said the man in his 70s – whom it did not name – was arrested in Southwark, south London, in the early hours of Sunday.
“The arrest relates to a video posted online in which people were encouraged to burn down MPs’ offices,” the force said. Earlier, the Met said it was assessing a video that appears to show Corbyn, 74, calling for MPs’ offices to be burned down.
The video, shared on social media, shows Corbyn, a prominent anti-lockdown protester, criticising politicians who voted for Covid restrictions.
After urging the crowd to “hammer to death those scum who have decided to go ahead with introducing new fascism”, Corbyn, the brother of the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, appears to tell a crowd in the video: “You’ve got to get a list of them … and if your MP is one of them, go to their offices and, well, I would recommend burning them down, OK. But I can’t say that on air. I hope we’re not on air.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... urned-down
