Police REFUSED to intervene when activists celebrated Houthi assaults
- Niyak Ghorbani was wrestled to the bottom by 4 Met officers and handcuffed
- The 38-year-old was counter-protesting the pro-Palestine march in London
Police have been accused of double requirements yesterday after arresting a person in London who referred to as Hamas terrorists – however refusing to intervene when close by protesters celebrated Houthi terror assaults within the Red Sea.
As hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators marched via the capital, a counter-protester carrying a ‘Hamas is Terrorist’ banner was wrestled to the bottom by 4 Met officers and handcuffed.
Shocking footage confirmed one of many arresting officers ripping the signal out of the Iranian man’s palms and screwing it up.
As he was held down, Niyak Ghorbani, 38, shouted: ‘Shame on you… I wrote down Hamas is a terrorist organisation… however they arrested me.’
Last evening, IT skilled Mr Ghorbani, an exiled Iranian, instructed The Mail on Sunday: ‘I believe the police are completely flawed. It is a complete double commonplace. It is one rule for the Palestinian protesters and one other for me. It is hypocrisy.’
Onlookers criticised the heavy-handed remedy of Mr Ghorbani in comparison with the softly-softly strategy in the direction of these glorifying Houthi terror assaults on British ships.
A person with a megaphone repeatedly screamed, ‘Yemen, Yemen, do us proud’ whereas a crowd chanted in response, ‘Turn one other ship round.’
Niyak Ghorbani (centre) was wrestled to the bottom by 4 Met officers and handcuffed for carrying a ‘Hamas is Terrorist’ banner throughout a counter-protest to the pro-Palestine march in London
Mr Ghorbani was seen carrying the signal throughout the newest nationwide protest towards Israel’s bombing of Gaza
Onlookers criticised the heavy-handed remedy of Mr Ghorbani in comparison with the softly-softly strategy in the direction of these glorifying Houthi terror assaults on British ships
Last week three sailors have been killed on their ship by missiles launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen. The Houthis say the assaults are in help of the Palestinians.
Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith final evening reacted to Mr Ghorbani’s remedy by saying: ‘I might be demanding a full inquiry with a public apology from the police. This Iranian man has executed nothing flawed in any respect.
‘For a person to be arrested and bundled to the ground by officers, who don’t appear to know the distinction between a peaceable organisation and a terrorist one, is astonishing.’
Jewish Tory MP Andrew Percy stated: ‘For months the police have ignored help for precise terrorist teams on our streets but they discover time to arrest somebody mentioning a easy assertion of reality.’
Despite witnessing the chanting, two Metropolitan Police officers declined to take motion when challenged by an onlooker, who requested: ‘Guys, you already know what that reference is, the Yemen reference… the Houthis, proscribed terror organisation?’
One of the officers shook his head whereas the opposite stated: ‘I’m listening to my earpiece, sorry.’
Mr Ghorbani, in the meantime, was later de-arrested and launched shortly after.
Last evening a Met spokesman stated it was ‘not correct’ that the person was arrested for having an anti-Hamas placard.
He stated: ‘He was arrested after an altercation was ongoing and officers intervened to forestall a breach of the peace. He was arrested for assault. Officers then absolutely reviewed footage offered of the incident, and he was later de-arrested. The arrest was not made in relation to the placard.’
The incidents passed off throughout the newest nationwide protest towards Israel’s bombing of Gaza – and observe claims that London has grow to be a ‘no-go zone for Jews’ throughout weekend protests.
Shocking footage confirmed Met Police officers handcuffing Mr Ghorbani on the ground, certainly one of them is seen ripping the signal out of the Iranian man’s palms and screwing it up
For the primary time because the battle started, an official counter-demonstration was staged in solidarity with each Israel and British Jews who’ve felt intimidated by the weekly protests.
Organisers stated they needed to reclaim London as ‘a bastion of democracy, variety, and multiculturalism’.
Police stated 4 different arrests have been made at yesterday’s march.
The UK Government formally designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation in 2021.
Membership and expressing help for Hamas is an unlawful act within the UK, punishable by as much as 14 years in jail.
