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EDL - BBC News Report on today's arrest of 179 EDL supporters in London (11/11/2011)

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These EDL supporters were all arrested after they had been to show their respects at the Remembrance Service at the Cenotaph. A good while later, whilst they were having a quiet drink in a Public House, they were suddenly surrounded and arrested by the Police. The BBC Report says : "There was no suggestion of any trouble" and that "the arrests were made because of something that might happen". From the BBC site : More than 170 supporters of the English Defence League (EDL) have been arrested outside a pub near the Cenotaph in central London, Scotland Yard has said. They were at the Red Lion in Parliament Street, close to Downing Street and government buildings on Whitehall. The EDL had said it would be in Westminster on Armistice Day to pay its respects to military personnel who had been killed or injured while on duty. Police said the arrests were made to "prevent a breach of the peace". The BBC's Ben Ando said that there were no reports of violence linked to the arrests, but that clashes between EDL members and a now banned group, Muslims against Crusades, had taken place on Armistice Day in 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15699794 Update : http://englishdefenceleague.org/occupy_london/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=occupy_london

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