An additional 60 folks can be prosecuted for “exhibiting assist for the proscribed terrorist group Palestine Motion”, the Metropolitan Police has mentioned.
This follows the arrest of greater than 700 folks for the reason that group was proscribed on 7 July, together with 522 in central London throughout a protest final Saturday.
Stephen Parkinson, director of public prosecutions, mentioned: “The selections that now we have introduced right this moment are the primary important numbers to return out of the current protests, and plenty of extra may be anticipated within the subsequent few weeks.
“We’re able to make swift selections in all instances the place arrests have been made.”
The Metropolitan Police mentioned it has been working intently with Counter Terrorism Policing, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and the Lawyer Common’s Workplace “to course of the case information, with extra prosecutions anticipated within the coming weeks”.
The pressure mentioned mentioned: “We now have put preparations in place that may allow us to research and prosecute important numbers every week if mandatory.
“Palestine Motion was proscribed in July after the group claimed accountability for harm to jets at RAF Brize Norton and was additionally linked to allegations of a critical assault on workers and cops at a enterprise premises in South Gloucestershire.
“Proscription of Palestine Motion made membership or assist of it a legal offence.”
Final week, the Met confirmed the primary three expenses in England and Wales underneath Part 13 of the Terrorism Act, linked to Palestine Motion, following the arrests of three people at a protest in Parliament Sq. on 5 July.
Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, mentioned: “I’m pleased with how our police and CPS groups have labored so speedily collectively to beat misguided makes an attempt to overwhelm the justice system.
“If mandatory, we’re capable of examine and shortly cost important numbers of individuals every week if folks need the doubtless life-changing penalties of a terrorist conviction.
“On the identical time, we’ll proceed to police the quite a few protests every week the place folks specific their views in assist of Palestine with out selecting to interrupt counter-terrorism legal guidelines by supporting proscribed terror teams.”
