{"id":54824,"date":"2025-04-27T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54824\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:13:14","slug":"bristol-teen-protester-causes-chaos-at-london-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54824\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol teen protester causes chaos at London Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 18-year-old protester disrupted the elite men’s raceNews<\/a>Alex Driscoll<\/strong>, Rosie Shead<\/strong>, Beverley Rouse<\/strong>, Charlotte Ambrose<\/strong>, Christopher McKeon, PA<\/strong> and Alex Driscoll<\/strong><\/a> Breaking news reporter<\/p>\n

11:49, 27 Apr 2025<\/p>\n

\"TwoTwo activists threw power paint during the London Marathon.(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

A teenager from Bristol was named by Youth Demand as one of two activists who disrupted the men’s elite race at the London Marathon<\/a> today, Sunday, April 27.<\/p>\n

Youth Demand named the two activists as Willow Holland, 18, from Bristol, and Cristy North, a live-in carer from Nottingham.<\/p>\n

The activists threw powder paint on Tower Bridge at around 10.35am this morning.<\/p>\n

The pair were both arrested by the police<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Protest group Youth Demand wants a trade embargo on Israel.<\/p>\n

Miss Holland was quoted by the group as saying: \u201cI am taking action with Youth Demand because I have run out of other options.<\/p>\n

“Thousands are being killed in Gaza, our Government is making no effort to stop it and no other course of action, marches or rallies, has worked. I refuse to be complicit in a genocide funded by our politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe activists were swiftly taken off Tower Bridge as the men’s elite racers looks on.(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Ms North was quoted as saying: \u201cI\u2019m taking action today at the London marathon because the people in Palestine are running out of time.<\/p>\n

“We have tried all other avenues to get the Government to stop arming Israel and yet our Government is still enabling a genocide.<\/p>\n

“They are making the UK people complicit in breaking UK domestic law by using our taxes to arm a genocidal state, breaking humanitarian international law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eight police officers rushed onto Tower Bridge to escort the activists away.<\/p>\n

The BBC<\/a> TV feed cut to the elite men\u2019s race moments after the leaders had crossed Tower Bridge and there appeared to be no impact on the race.<\/p>\n

An image shared by Youth Demand shows two people standing in the middle of the road wearing t-shirts that said \u201cYouth Demand: Stop Arming Israel\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 18-year-old protester disrupted the elite men’s raceNewsAlex Driscoll, Rosie Shead, Beverley Rouse, Charlotte Ambrose, Christopher McKeon, PA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[192,381,748,393,4884,17450,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-54824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london-marathon","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114410107968233179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54824","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=54824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}