was supposed to be an unforgettable night. And it was. But in a way very different from what they imagined their promoters. Two Labour MPs have called to transform Trafalgar Square in the British version of Tahrir Square, a makeshift camp to protest the government's adjustment plan of David Cameron and question the way their legitimacy.
But hundreds of anti-violence led to a very different scenario: with exacerbated vandalism, fires and sporadic violent clashes around Charing Cross station.
Protests and vandalism
The day was divided into two opposing sections. The first is marked by a peaceful and bustling in which half a million Britons protested the austerity plan. The second, by a bizarre violence coordinated by hundreds of masked men wanting to anger and black scarves. The first shock tore the edge of the two in the afternoon. Just as Labor leader began his speech at the rally in Hyde Park. The anti's embarked for the umpteenth time against TopShop in Oxford Street, then stormed the hotel room Ritz and Fortnum & Mason tea and knocked the glass door of a branch of Santander.
In other circumstances, the protest had languished at the dinner. But last night was Saturday and the teenagers wanted to spend the night in Trafalgar Square bottle. Dusk and ran the hash and beer and gin bottles flew over the crowd. At first the riot allowed to do. But as the hours passed, the demonstrators more peaceful went home and were getting more violent with the situation.
Policing
The spark was the assault on the clock that marks the countdown to the opening of the Olympic Games in London. The police protected as a sacred totem and started pushing those who remained out of the plaza. They blew up the clubs and beer bottles. And the riot reached its target by half: about 50 teenagers had gathered strength along the base of Nelson's Column by invoking their right to protest.
At that point, was almost the least because violence had spread along the Strand. Three containers were burning behind the crypt of St. Martin and the anti-cornered to an agent in the back of a truck. The sidewalks were a mass of crystals and the fanatics were leading the crowd. "But atacadlos" shouted a drunk about 50 years, "they are front fenders and you. Do not stay unemployed, I see a lot midfielder around here ...".
Across the street, munching some concern among the intruders. The waiters at Pizza Express crestfallen locked the door. Two Japanese hit back on the heaving of a store. Younger unsuccessfully attempted to leave the police control. Occasionally sounded the sound of a firecracker next to the police and outbreaks of violence came syncopated. Always with the impression that I could get more. Trafalgar was supposed to be an imitation of Tahrir Square. But it was a battle at the foot of Nelson's Column that has left more than 200 arrested for disorderly conduct and 66 wounded (mostly mild), local media reported. Too violent to remember.
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