Moment police are swarmed by furious protest mob after counter terror arrests

Tensions successful Haringey country of London aft antagonistic panic arrests

Police person clashed with aggravated protesters successful London aft a bid of arrests by counter-terror officers, successful a clip shared connected societal media.

The unverified footage, shared by GB News’ Darren Grimes, appears to amusement officers being confronted by a ample radical of people, with voices raised. At 1 constituent a dependable tin beryllium heard saying: “You’re going to termination him.” A chopper tin besides beryllium heard overhead.

Six radical person been arrested and a Kurdish assemblage centre volition stay closed for up to 2 weeks arsenic it is searched arsenic portion of a counter-terrorism probe into the banned Kurdistan Workers Party.

The group, known arsenic the PKK, is classed arsenic a violent organisation successful the UK and the arrests came amid a "significant" constabulary probe into imaginable violent activity.

Four men aged 23, 27, 56 and 62, and 2 women aged 31 and 59, were arrested astatine abstracted addresses successful dawn raids successful London and stay successful custody, the Metropolitan Police said.

The footage shows constabulary being confronted by aggravated protesters (Image: X)

Searches are taking spot astatine 8 addresses including the Kurdish Community Centre successful Haringey, northbound London, wherever the unit said the hunt cognition would instrumentality up to 2 weeks.

Acting Commander Helen Flanagan, from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command said: "This enactment has travel astir pursuing a important probe and cognition into enactment we judge is linked to the violent radical PKK.

"These are targeted arrests of those we fishy of being progressive successful violent enactment linked to the group.

"I anticipation that these arrests amusement that we volition not tolerate immoderate benignant of violent enactment and that we volition instrumentality enactment wherever we judge determination is harm being caused to communities present successful the UK oregon elsewhere."

The unit said determination is not thought to beryllium immoderate imminent menace to the public.

Ms Flanagan added: "This probe and enactment is astir protecting each of our communities, but peculiarly those successful our Turkish and Kurdish communities.

"I would impulse anyone who thinks they whitethorn person been affected oregon targeted by those linked to the PKK to get successful touch.

"We are besides precise mindful that closing the assemblage centre whitethorn origin inconvenience to immoderate people.

"Officers volition beryllium moving arsenic rapidly arsenic they can, but these are precise superior allegations truthful it is important that we instrumentality attraction successful identifying and gathering arsenic overmuch grounds arsenic we can."

The PKK is simply a separatist radical that wants an autarkic Kurdish authorities successful south-east Turkey, and has been banned successful the UK since 2001.

It has been warring against the Turkish authorities since the aboriginal 1980s.

Mr Grimes commented: "Protests footwear disconnected successful London aft 6 person been arrested by Counter Terror Police."

Express.co.uk has contacted the Metropolitan Police for much details.

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