Report of EDL London demonstration on Saturday 11th September.
Reporter | 14.09.2010 12:00
On Saturday the 11th of September about 800 EDL supporters attended a vigil outside the American embassy for the 9/11 victims. Then went onto to protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy. There was a small muslim demo when they arrived at the embassy at about 12:30pm, but police managed to keep the two sides apart.
The EDL supporters held their vigil for about an hour before marching off through the back streets of Mayfair under heavy police escort. They were marched around the streets for about an hour before finally coming to the Saudi embassy. There they stood and shouted slogans from across the street, such as "muslim bombers off our streets" and "close down the Saudi Embassy". There were a few speaches, then after about half an hour most started to disperse most heading down to pubs in Victoria.
The strange thing was at this event there were no counter demonstrators from UAF, AFA etc. Despite this being one of the biggest EDL mobilisations at around 800. A few UAF and AFA under cover camera men did turn up to video the protests but there was no counter demonstration at all. Is this a new tactic from UAF and AFA, don't call out counter demonstrators just pretend to be from the press and film the EDL demos?
The strange thing was at this event there were no counter demonstrators from UAF, AFA etc. Despite this being one of the biggest EDL mobilisations at around 800. A few UAF and AFA under cover camera men did turn up to video the protests but there was no counter demonstration at all. Is this a new tactic from UAF and AFA, don't call out counter demonstrators just pretend to be from the press and film the EDL demos?
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