Scotland Yard has been forced to pay a total of more than £700,000 in compensation to 153 anti-fascist campaigners who were arrested by police during a demonstration and detained for up to 14 hours. Internal police documents seen by the Guardian show that two undercover officers spied on anti-fascist campaigners at the demonstration. The anti-fascist campaigners gathered in a counter demonstration at a Whitechapel park to hear speeches and then set off on their march. At lunchtime, police surrounded and detained two groups of anti-fascist campaigners in a containment tactic known as “kettling”. It said :“The Met will neither confirm nor deny the deployment of undercover officers during any specific event or operation.

Source: The Guardian June 26, 2019 13:08 UTC