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Home | The Socialist 22 June 2006 | Join the Socialist Party Forest Gate raidCommunity protests at trigger-happy policing
Both men were released without charge after a week in police custody. Media reports claim that the police informer who triggered the raid had 'learning difficulties'. Abul Koyair thanked the demonstrators for their support and stressed that he and his brother didn't want "this to happen to other people in this community, Muslim or non-Muslim". He was joined on the demo by Alex Pereira, the cousin of Brazilian migrant worker Jean Charles de Menezes, gunned down by police in an anti-terrorist operation last year. Met chief Sir Ian Blair is facing calls to resign over his handling of the Menezes shooting.
But according to press reports, the raid was OK'd by the Cabinet Office. Moreover, many people consider that they face a trigger-happy police force, acting with impunity under the government's anti-terrorist laws. And in a crassly insensitive manner it was announced the day before Sunday's demo that Assistant Police Commissioner, Andy Hayman, was made a CBE in the Honours list. Hayman is responsible for anti-terrorism investigations which includes the Menezes shooting and the Forest Gate raid..
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Prime Minister Tony Blair had angered the local community when he
said he backed the police raid "101%", and that he fully
supported Ian Blair. East Ham Labour MP Stephen Timms was roundly booed
at Sunday's rally when he tried to distance the government from the
Forest Gate raid.
Socialist Party members leafleted for a forthcoming public meeting to
discuss the police raid, terrorism, and the issue of Iraq. Many
protesters signed a Socialist Party petition calling for a public
inquiry, involving community and workers' representatives, into the
anti-terrorist laws and policing.