{"id":54637,"date":"2025-04-27T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54637\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:34:07","slug":"london-marathon-crashed-by-protest-as-police-wrestle-paint-throwers-from-tower-bridge-other-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54637\/","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon crashed by protest as police wrestle paint throwers from Tower Bridge | Other | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

The London Marathon<\/a> was disrupted on Sunday morning as police were forced to wrestle two protesters to the floor on Tower Bridge. The two men jumped over barriers and onto the road just before the leaders of the elite men\u2019s race passed through.<\/p>\n

The first protester on the road threw red paint over the lead van, which was travelling in front of the leading pack. One of the two motorbikes travelling in front of the runners then stopped, with one of the riders disembarking and tackling the protesters to the ground. The other bike was able to carry on as the runners managed to get past the commotion without being forced to stop. Police raced to the scene to apprehend the two protesters after they had already been halted as spectators next to the road watched on in disbelief.<\/p>\n

Campaign group Youth Demand were responsible for the protest, with the two men wearing white t-shirts which included the slogan: \u201cStop arming Israel<\/a>.\u201d And the group posted a video<\/a> of the incident to their X (formerly Twitter) page along with a message to their followers.<\/p>\n

The message read: \u201cRACE AGAINST TIME TO SAVE GAZA: YOUTH DEMAND SUPPORTERS DISRUPT LONDON MARATHON.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 10:30am, Willow and Cristy jumped the barriers at Tower Bridge and sat down in front of the men’s elite race at the London Marathon, wearing ‘Stop Arming Israel<\/a>‘ t-shirts.<\/p>\n

\u201cGaza is running out of food. Arming genocide crosses the line. We won’t be bystanders: join us in resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

A ladies\u2019 voice can also be heard on the video as she screams: \u201cThe UK Labour government is complicit in enabling a genocide in Palestine.<\/p>\n

“We continue to provide arms to Israel<\/a>, the genocidal state of Israel<\/a>. We are breaking UK domestic law and international law by supplying Israel<\/a> with arms. Stop the genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

The London Marathon action began at 8.50am<\/a> on Sunday as the elite wheelchair races got underway. Marcel Hug cruised to victory in the men\u2019s wheelchair race, with Catherine Debrunner winning the women\u2019s wheelchair race.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa later won the women\u2019s event, with Kenya\u2019s Sabastian Sawe taking the honours in the men\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

And commenting on the women\u2019s event, three-time London Marathon winner Paula Radcliffe told the BBC<\/a>: \u201cThat was a phenomenal race, so hats off to Tigst Assefa for being brave enough to go out in the pace she did.<\/p>\n

“The manner in which she lifted herself to get across the line as well. You can see how much it means to her. It’s more to build on for her moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London Marathon was disrupted on Sunday morning as police were forced to wrestle two protesters to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2194,17450,29049,529,18744,8558,79,29048,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-54637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-london-marathon","10":"tag-other-section","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-protest","13":"tag-sport-section","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tower-bridge","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114409718703676970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54637","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=54637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}