Gaza protesters arrested in Brighton arms factory seige

[DogPoundPup]

Police arrested nine people today after anti-war protesters broke into an arms factory, causing extensive damage.

The group entered the EDO MBM Technology plant in Home Farm Road, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, East Sussex in the early hours of this morning.

Demonstrators said they were "decommissioning" the site in protest against the killings of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military.
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They claimed equipment manufactured at the plant was being used in Gaza by the Israeli air force.

Andrew Beckett, spokesman for protest group Smash EDO, said: "According to one witness computers and filing cabinets were hurled out of top floor windows as a group of protesters broke in to the factory."

Sussex Police said they received a call at 1.50am reporting that people were breaking into the property.

Seven men and two women were arrested at the scene after officers discovered extensive damage had been caused to the building, computer equipment and precision machinery.

DCI Graham Pratt said: "Windows had been smashed and offices turned over in what I would describe as wanton vandalism, but with machinery and equipment so targeted that it could have been done with a view of bringing business to a standstill. The damage is significant and the value substantial."

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2482549.0.Gaza_protesters_arrested_in_Brighton_arms_factory_seige.php

[High Plains]

1. Stopping the war machine. Can't condemn that.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Never would have happened in the US

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