'Military staff' deployed against protestors during DSEi 2007?
localresident | 03.09.2009 10:01
local paper Stratford and Newham Express claims military staff were protecting DSEi from protestors in 2007.
An article in the Stratford and Newham Express this week says
'Though the last show, in 2007, was a largely peaceful event, some 3,000 Metropolitan Police officers, British Transport Police and military staff flooded Newham to ensure that exhibitors and visitors were protected from protestors.'
an online edition of the paper can be seen here, article on page 6:
http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=Kb3180rP1oS5&PBID=cb53c05c-258a-40b7-aa5e-ba8f50883d71&skip=
'Though the last show, in 2007, was a largely peaceful event, some 3,000 Metropolitan Police officers, British Transport Police and military staff flooded Newham to ensure that exhibitors and visitors were protected from protestors.'
an online edition of the paper can be seen here, article on page 6:
http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?referral=other&refresh=Kb3180rP1oS5&PBID=cb53c05c-258a-40b7-aa5e-ba8f50883d71&skip=
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Placards = dangerous... Bombs = fine...?
03.09.2009 10:07
It's the world that is in dire need of protection from THEM, and the police who stand in front of mass murderers to protect them.
Something just doesn't add up here! :/
WTF
MoD PloD
03.09.2009 16:14
Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency
Under an agreement with Clarion Events the Secretary of State for
Defence has agreed to provide the services of the Ministry of Defence
Police, at the ExCel Exhibition and Conference Centre, and the
adjacent King George V and Victoria Docks, London Docklands, for
the period 5-12 September 2009. Notice of that agreement is hereby
published as required by section 2(2)(e) of the Ministry of Defence
Police Act 1987. (902885)
ACAB