Just as day follows night, protestors accompany spectacle. Thousands took part this morning in the London marathon to raise millions of pounds for charity. But for two activists on London Bridge, it seems that the heroic efforts of others were an excuse to make it all about them. A pair wearing ‘Stop Arming Israel’ t-shirts jumped in front of the men’s elite group as they crossed the bridge at 10:30 a.m. It was only thanks to the quick-thinking of stewards that they were not nearly trampled…
Both activists proceeded to throw red powder paint as they entered the race route – before being quickly hauled off the bridge and arrested by City of London police. The activists are believed to belong to ‘Youth Demand’ – a group linked to ‘Just Stop Oil’, the eco-zealots who held their final event on Saturday. The two activists were subsequently named as Willow Holland, 18, from Bristol, and Cristy North, from Nottingham.
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