Police have raided the home of the publisher of a local Bristol radical newspaper in what seems a riot-connected action.

On the afternoon of august 17th, police raided a house in central Bristol where an editor of local newspaper The Autonomist lives.  Riot police kicked down the door of the property without warning, detained the inhabitants for two hours, and seized articles relating to the production of The Autonomist.  Delighted journalists from the Evening Post swarmed around outside, trying to photograph the detainees and remaining in contact with an officer inside by telephone at all times.

The grudgingly-produced warrant for the raid attempts to link the occupants to recent disorder (as did a frankly libellous sign erected outside by the police).  It authorises the seizure of "rocks (may by having glass samples upon)" and "white paint", and refers repeatedly to "domestic extremisim [sic]".  The list rounded out with such incriminating articles as "pedal cycles", "clothing", and "literature".  Several other items not listed, such as passports, were also illegally seized.

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