{"id":476437,"date":"2025-10-05T18:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476437\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T18:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:33:11","slug":"u-k-police-to-get-greater-powers-to-restrict-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476437\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. police to get greater powers to restrict demos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n A worker sprays water as he cleans the area in front of the Manchester synagogue, where multiple people were killed on Yom Kippur, in what police have declared a terrorist incident, in north Manchester on October 5, 2025
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U.K. police are to be given greater powers to restrict protests as a Minister said repeated large-scale pro-Palestinian demonstrations had caused “considerable fear” for the Jewish community.<\/p>\n

The government initiative follows Thursday’s (October 2, 2025) deadly knife and car-ramming attack on a synagogue in the northwestern city of Manchester.<\/p>\n

A pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London went ahead on Saturday (October 4) despite pleas from Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the capital’s Metropolitan Police to delay it.<\/p>\n

The government said police would be authorised to consider the “cumulative impact” of protests when deciding to impose limits on protesters.<\/p>\n

“The right to protest is a fundamental freedom in our country. However, this freedom must be balanced with the freedom of their neighbours to live their lives without fear,” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said.<\/p>\n

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Over 1,000 people took part in Saturday’s (October 4) protest in London’s Trafalgar Square with nearly 500 people arrested for showing supporting for the banned Palestine Action campaign group.<\/p>\n

Organisers rejected calls not to gather saying they “stood in solidarity” with the Jewish community over the Manchester attack but that “cancelling peaceful protests lets terror win”.<\/p>\n

A day earlier Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was booed at a vigil for the Jewish victims of the synagogue attack.<\/p>\n

“Large, repeated protests can leave sections of our country, particularly religious communities, feeling unsafe, intimidated and scared to leave their homes,” Mahmood said.<\/p>\n

“This has been particularly evident in relation to the considerable fear within the Jewish community.”<\/p>\n

Questioned by a BBC television interviewer about the Jewish community’s repeated warnings about the dangers they face, Mahmood admitted she was “very worried about the state of community relations in our country”.<\/p>\n

The Home Secretary added, speaking to Times Radio, that there was a broad “problem of a rise not only in antisemitism but in other forms of hatred as well”.<\/p>\n

“There are clearly malign and dark forces running amok across our country,” she said.<\/p>\n

Police shot dead assailant Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old UK citizen of Syrian descent, within minutes of the alarm being raised on Thursday (October 2).<\/p>\n

One person died in the attack outside the synagogue in north Manchester. Another died after suffering a fatal gunshot, believed by police to have been fired by armed officers as they tackled Shamie.<\/p>\n

Three people who were seriously injured remain in hospital, including one who is also believed to have been accidentally hit by police fire.<\/p>\n

Counter terrorism police have been granted more time to detain four people arrested on suspicion suspicion of terrorism-linked offences over the incident.<\/p>\n

The U.K. has seen repeated pro-Palestinian demonstrations since the deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 and Israel’s retaliatory action in Gaza in which tens of thousands have died.<\/p>\n

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