영국 런던 북부의 토튼햄에서 29세 남성이 경찰 총격에 사망한 것을 계기로 6일(현지시각) 폭동이 일어났다.
이날 저녁 시위대가 토튼햄 경찰서 앞에 모여 경찰 총격으로 인한 남성의 사망에 항의해 "정의"를 외치며 경찰과 대립하다 경찰차 2대와 건물 1채, 이층버스가 불탔다.
시위자는 400~500명가량이며, 일부가 가게 유리창을 깨고 약탈을 자행해 도시 전체에 사이렌 소리가 울리는 등 당국이 급히 지원병력을 파견하고 있다고 지역 주민이 전했다.
Tottenham's burning: Riot police on horseback are drafted in as a double decker bus is alight in the background
London's burning: Building are alight after being torched by youths during an attempted arrest last night
There was concern that the
disturbances were fanned by Twitter, with some of those taking part
posting inflammatory comments from the scene and calling for
reinforcements.
One picture of a police car on fire in the area was re-tweeted more than 100 times on the social networking site within an hour.
Mr Duggan, 29, was shot by officers
from the Metropolitan Police’s CO19 unit on Thursday evening after the
minicab he was travelling in was stopped. There was an apparent
‘exchange’ of fire and a bullet was found lodged in a police radio.
The red double decker burns. The trouble started at around 5.30pm as the protest began
Into the storm: A police officer in riot gear
stands looking at a burning car on the night riots returned to north
London following a fatal shooting
Twitter riot: A red London double decker bus
burns as riot police try and bring rioting under control in Tottenham
late last night
Police try and control a huge crowd of people as a shop burns. In the front of the picture a police car sits burnt out
Mr Duggan died at the scene and an officer was injured, but left hospital after treatment.
The violence last night started soon
after a crowd of about 120 had begun to gather at the High Road, near
Tottenham Hotspur’s football ground, from about 5.30pm
Their target was the police station
which was being guarded late last night by lines of officers and police
vans. As the disorder spread, and the numbers of demonstrators swelled,
two police cars being used to block the road were set ablaze by masked
youths.
Flames began to billow from a shop and
then a double-decker bus was engulfed in flames and quickly reduced to a
twisted shell. Witnesses also reported seeing a jewellery shop and a
bookmakers being looted. Teenagers and younger children were seen
carrying valuables through the shattered glass front of an electrical
shop.
London riots: The burnt out shell of a police
car in north London as yobs go on the rampage in Haringey following the
death of father-of-four mark Duggan
Windows were smashed at a Barclays
Bank and pictures on Twitter appeared to show the building being looted.
There were also reports that youths had stormed McDonald’s and had
started frying their own burgers and chips.
Footage was posted on YouTube of local solicitor’s office Attridge on fire.
Resident David Akinsanya, 46, who was
on the scene, said: ‘It’s really bad. There are two police cars on fire.
I’m feeling unsafe. It looks like it’s going to get very tasty. I saw a
guy getting attacked.’
A local woman, who declined to give
her name, said: ‘There’s a theory going on that the man who was shot had
dropped his gun, but they still shot him. I’m hearing that most of the
shops in the High Road are being burgled and robbed.’
Masked youths outside a Barclays Bank which has had its window smashed during the chaos
A shot is attacked by arsonists on Tottenham
High Road during protests tonight a quarter of a century after the
infamous Broadwater Farm riots
Several fire crews could only stand ready nearby as they were barred from the High Road where buildings and the bus were ablaze.
One fireman complained to The Mail on
Sunday that earlier, three engines had been dispatched to the scene
without being warned they were entering a riot zone. He said: ‘We were
sent to a road accident but it was the police cars on fire.
‘We were then ordered to leave them burning and to drive off, probably for our own safety.
‘I cannot believe what we have just
driven through. As we pulled out of the station, there was a car on fire
on the High Road and there were people in the middle of the road – it
was very scary. We didn’t give them a chance to try to stop us. I am
still shaking.’
Hooded youths use aerosol cans to set fire to
shelves of goods inside a retail store on Tottenham High Road after
ransacking the premises
London's burning: A police car after rioters set
it ablaze during a civil disturbace inTottenham High Road outside the
police station
Meanwhile, two Mail on Sunday
photographers were viciously beaten and robbed by masked youths armed
with crowbars and other makeshift weapons and reporters on the scene
were threatened by looters in balaclavas.
The photographers said there was
‘total lawlessness’ in the area with the contents of shops strewn across
the streets and the police unable to gain access.
One said: ‘It is utter carnage out
there. We have been beaten up quite badly and had about £8,000 of
equipment stolen. We were quite discreet but as soon as we got a camera
out we were set on by youths with masks who were armed with crowbars.’
A woman walks through the debris with two
children as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main
road in Tottenham
In a separate incident, a Mail on Sunday reporter was chased down a side street and struck on the back of the head with a rock.
In a parallel with the 1985 riot, residents claimed the roots of last night’s violence lay in allegations of police harassment.
John Blake, who grew up with Mr Duggan
on the Broadwater estate, claimed the dead man had been victimised by
police in recent weeks.
He said: ‘I know the police were
harassing him. The police were following him. If you’re from Broadwater
Farm, police are on you every day, you’re not allowed to come off the
estate. If you come off the estate they follow you.’
Ablaze: A police car burns in Tottenham, North London on Saturday evening
Chaos: An estimated 300 people were on the streets in north London as news of the riots was spread via Twitter
A family friend of Mr Duggan, who gave
her name only as Nikki, 53, said the man’s friends and relatives had
organised the protest because ‘something has to be done’ and the
marchers wanted ‘justice for the family’.
Some of those involved lay in the road to make their point, she said.
A huge fireball lights up the night sky as yobs go on the rampage
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