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United Kingdom: Police arrest more than 100 to halt environmental protest

Green activists may have been planning raid on Nottingham incinerator or an East Midlands power station

Source:  Copyright 2009, Guardian
Date:  April 13, 2009
Byline:  Anil Dawar
Original URL: Status ONLINE


More than 114 people were arrested in a dawn raid today over an alleged attack being planned against the power industry.

Scores of officers from Nottinghamshire police swooped on a community centre in the Nottingham suburb of Sneinton in a coordinated operation.

Officers from the neighbouring Derbyshire and Leicestershire forces were drafted in to help with the raid and both forces are providing custody spaces for those arrested.

A spokesman for Nottinghamshire police confirmed that 114 people had been arrested at a location in the Sneinton area of Nottingham on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass and criminal damage at a power industry facility.

Police refused to comment further on the circumstances surrounding the arrests and said they would not be releasing any details until tomorrow.

Residents reported seeing more than 20 police vans surrounding the Bakersfield community centre in Sneinton just ...

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