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Mayday: 8pm Storming Shell?

w@ | 02.05.2003 16:41

8pm, 400 people got out of the cordon & tried to storm the Shell building on the Strand - any reports of this?

A friend of mine who got caught in the evening cordon at the Trafalgar Square end of the Strand, says that at around 8pm, 400 people got out of the cordon & tried to storm the Shell building on the Strand, after which they were re-cordoned.

I haven't seen any other reports of this - on the IMC timeline or elsewhere. Did anyone out there witness this?

w@

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getting battered in a side street more like

02.05.2003 17:02

police lines were pushed through towards samba band and part of the crowd surged out only to try a side street before getting well jumped on and charged by the cops - this was around 8 ish - was there the whole time so assume i didn't miss an 'attempted storming' - could be wronf of course but doubt it.

z