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Fifteen members of an activist organization known for previous high-profile protests, including actions at the Ritz Hotel and involving the Crown Jewels, have been detained by the Metropolitan Police. The arrests followed allegations that the group was planning a large-scale shoplifting campaign across London. Authorities stated that these individuals were intending to take goods from major supermarkets and then redistribute them.
The activists had convened at the Quaker Meeting House located on St Martin’s Lane in Westminster for a session described as training in “nonviolent direct action.” It was during this gathering that officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Public Order Crime Team intervened and carried out the arrests, charging the group members with conspiracy to commit theft.
Out of the fifteen people arrested, one man has been released on bail while the remaining fourteen are currently being held at various police stations within London. The incident follows a recent protest by the same group at the Ritz Hotel where bags of manure were dumped next to the hotel’s Christmas tree as part of their demonstration.
This is not the first time activists have been detained at the Quaker Meeting House; last March, six members of another group, Youth Demand, were also arrested there. The police operation involved over thirty officers. Representatives from the Quakers in Britain criticized the raid, emphasizing that this was the first time in living memory that arrests had occurred at one of their meeting houses
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