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Home | Friday 12th December 2008 | Issue 659

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CRAP ARREST OF THE WEEK

For having a train ticket...

Police arrested one man after he attempted to board a train at King’s Cross Station. Police have taken to converging on London station platforms in the hope of catching fare dodgers.

This particular traveller, on his way to the anti-militarism conference in Edinburgh, actually had a ticket, however the ticket inspector said it wasn’t valid till after 6pm. A few heated words ensued. As this was happening five plain clothes police pounced on the ne’er do well, thinking he was one of those pesky fare dodgers, and manhandled him.

It all seemed like it would be written off as a misunderstanding until the cops phoned his details in to the Police National Computer and found out he had been arrested several times on political protests. Hey presto! before you could say ‘politically motivated arrest’ he was handcuffed and carted off to the slammer.



 
 

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Added on 14th December 2008 at 06:48 by madhatterz

similar things happened in sweden too during the salem 08 marches, there police was waiting atthe subway station and started arresting anti fascists as they came of the train. over 300 anti fascists were denied entry into salem, while the nazis had a free pass to demonstrate in the city


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