Anarchists ‘to target Royal wedding next’
GANGS of anarchists are plotting to wreck the Westminster Abbey wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, it emerged yesterday.
Police intelligence reports reveal how anti-capitalist thugs around the world are being urged to descend on London for the wedding on Friday, April 29.
There are genuine fears anarchists will attempt to destroy the couple’s big day by sparking riots across the capital.
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The wedding, which has been declared a public holiday, takes place just after Easter and the May Day holiday follows three days later. Senior police officers suspect a loose coalition of Left-wing agitators will try to take advantage of the holidays to swell the numbers of anti-capitalist protesters.
In recent years May Day has seen activists rioting across the UK to protest against globalisation.
Prince William with fiance Kate Middleton
Security experts say the capital will be a favoured venue for yobs bent on violence due to continuing protests over tuition fees and cuts in public services.
An internet campaign is already building to amass a mob and stage a major demonstration on the Prince’s wedding day. Websites linked to a range of groups have posted obscene messages about the couple while trying to combine a demo against the Royals with a May Day protest against big business.
One website says: “Royal Wedding marks the beginning of the end of capitalism.”
It says: “The weekend of the 29th April 2011 is the date that will mark the raising of consciousness of mainstream society and their subsequent thinking and debating a money less world.”
Ominously, it says: “Please keep this weekend free to celebrate.” And the site adds: “Monarchies are dead and the English one is merely just a Euro Disney re-creation.”
Other ultra-Left websites urge protesters to demonstrate on April 29 on the theme of Wedding Day or Workers’ Day.
Police suspect some of the anarchist groups plotting to disrupt the wedding were involved in hijacking the tuition fees protest on Thursday.
A senior police source said last night: “The events of Thursday show how these people are capable of carrying out sickening levels of violence.
“They also used the internet and social networking sites to mobilise their supporters and get them out on the streets in pretty cold weather. The threat to disrupt the Royal Wedding next year is being taken seriously.”
Similar demonstrations, including a bid to disrupt the wedding of Charles and Camilla in April 2005 failed to get off the ground.
But with major public disorder returning to the streets of the capital and warmer weather expected in April, police suspect the anarchists will be spurred on.
The heightened threat from anarchist groups is already being tackled by a small group of senior police officers, palace aides and other officials planning security surrounding the wedding. The last serious May Day riot was in 2000 when a supposedly peaceful protest was hijacked by anarchists who attacked police and daubed graffiti on the Cenotaph and Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square.
Tory peer Lord Tebbit said Thursday’s “vicious” attacks, especially on the Royal Family, were the worst he could remember.
“This shows the sheer, vicious, nastiness of the Left,” he said. “I can never recall the use of violence against any Left-wing figures in this country, however unpleasant they may have been.”
In the London poll tax riots in 1990, up to 3,000 demonstrators turned on police, attacking them with bricks, bottles and scaffolding poles, and 340 were arrested. Of 113 people injured, 45 were police.
