Police enquiries underway after Derry City and Strabane council meeting disrupted by pro-Palestinian protestors

It happened last night

PSNI
Author: Downtown/Cool FM ReporterPublished 23rd Nov 2023

Police say they are conducting enquiries, after a meeting of Derry City and Strabane District Council last night was disrupted by pro-Palestinian protestors.

A large banner was held up in the chamber calling for the expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador.

Mayor Patrica Logue asked some protestors - who had covered their faces - to take down their masks "in the interests of openness".

Some unionist councillors have condemned the protest as anti-Semitic.

The meeting was suspended early.

A PSNI statement said, “Police are aware of an online video of a verbal altercation at a meeting in the Guildhall in Derry/Londonderry today, Wednesday 22 November. Enquiries are ongoing.”

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