28-year-old man charged with "contempt of public decency" on suspicion of urinating on a plaque installed in honor of a police officer killed in a 2017 terrorist attack near the British Parliament, the government announced on Sunday London police. Photographs of a man urinating near the monument this Saturday, as far-right activists demonstrated in the center of the capital, throwing projectiles and taking part in the police, circulated widely on social networks, causing outraged reactions.
Absolute shame on this man.
Of all the images to emerge over these few testing days I find this one of most abhorrent.
Please help identify him. pic.twitter.com/8ydcNmTWrN
A 28-year-old man from Essex, north-east London, was arrested after presenting himself at a police station, Scotland Yard said. The man is scheduled to appear in Westminster Magistrates court on Monday.
A “terrible and shameful” degradation
Policeman Keith Palmer, 48, was stabbed to death in March 2017 near parliament by Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old British man converted to Islam and known to the police, who had just mowed pedestrians with his car on Westminster Bridge. A total of five people died in the attack claimed by the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group.
Interior Minister Priti Patel deemed "absolutely appalling and shameful" the degradation of the plaque posed in tribute to the police, also condemning the clashes on Saturday between far right activists and the police. A total of 113 people were arrested including for disturbing public order, attacking police and possession of weapons, following this Saturday's protests in central London, and 23 police officers were injured, police said. metropolitan.
Commander Bas Javid considered these events "absolutely shocking". "Blind hooliganism like this is totally unacceptable and I am glad that arrests have been made. We will now work closely with the courts to obtain justice, ”he said.
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