Edinburgh Live’s Whatsapp Community here <\/b><\/a>and get the latest news sent<\/b>straight to your messages.<\/b><\/p>\nPaint art performer, Aicon, was on the city street around 7pm before she was allegedly approached by the gang of around 15 young people.<\/p>\n
She claimed the group ‘threw a bottle of coke’ before ‘pouring a drink’ on her leaving her hair and clothes wet.<\/p>\n
The gang then reportedly nicked four spray paint cans she was unable to retrieve. Speaking to Edinburgh Live, Aicon said the incident was a “dangerous situation”.<\/p>\n
On June 30, a firework thrown by youths exploded next to mums and babies in Princes Street Gardens.<\/p>\n
The clip shows smoke billowing as terrified diners turn and look at the area where the missile was thrown.<\/p>\n
Families can be seen sitting directly adjacent to the impact area and a mother holding her baby is visible as she walks a couple of metres away from where the pyrotechnic device blew up. Police Scotland officers launched an investigation.<\/p>\n
Sergeant Robert Richardson said previously: “We understand the impact anti-social behaviour and disorder has on the local community, and I would like to thank locals who continue to bring these incidents to our attention. I would reassure them that everything possible is being done to reduce anti-social behaviour in our area.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers are currently running a dedicated initiative named Operation Verbeia, which involves increased high-visibility patrols specifically targeting anti-social behaviour in the Princes Street area and its surroundings.<\/p>\n
“We take reports of such instances very seriously and I would urge anyone who comes across disorder to contact police. Anti-social behaviour and criminal acts will not be tolerated and those found to be committing these offences will be dealt with appropriately.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone with any concerns is encouraged to report incidents to police on 101 or anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A feral youth gang was caught on camera wreaking havoc on Edinburgh’s Princes Street on Tuesday evening. Around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,34379,65698,712,16,15,142300,78101],"class_list":{"0":"post-414244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-princes-street","12":"tag-princes-street-gardens","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-waverley-station","17":"tag-youths"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}