{"id":620024,"date":"2025-12-08T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/620024\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:23:14","slug":"pepper-spray-attack-injures-21-at-london-heathrow-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/620024\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pepper Spray’ Attack Injures 21 at London Heathrow Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travellers faced chaos at London Heathrow Airport<\/a> on Sunday, where police said some 21 people were apparently injured by pepper spray.<\/p>\n

London’s Metropolitan Police said they were called to a parking garage at Terminal 3 around 8 a.m. after a number of people were sprayed by a group of men who left the scene.<\/p>\n

Armed officers arrived and arrested a man on suspicion of assault within nine minutes of the first report, it added.<\/p>\n

“At this stage, it’s understood that a woman was robbed of her suitcase by a group of four men, who sprayed a substance believed to be pepper spray<\/a> in her direction,” said Commander Peter Stevens.<\/p>\n

He added that it occurred in an elevator, and those directly involved are believed to be known to each other.<\/p>\n

21 people were treated by the London Ambulance Service, including a three-year-old child, the police said. Five of them were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

While the terminal remained open, the disruption put many people at risk of missing their flights.<\/p>\n

Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe, serving over 80 million passengers last year.<\/p>\n

In an X post, Heathrow Airport advised passengers to allow extra time when travelling to the airport and to check with their airline for any questions.<\/p>\n

A highway into Terminals 3 and 2 was closed for about an hour before reopening, according to an X post from National Highways.<\/p>\n

It then said it closed it again on the airport’s request, “due to the amount of vehicles and pedestrians within the tunnel,” but reopened within 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

The BBC reported that some passengers were seen getting out of cars and walking down a road with their luggage, towards signs that warned “no pedestrians beyond this point.”<\/p>\n

There were also delays of 45 minutes approaching the airport, according to National Highways, while Elizabeth Line<\/a> trains stopped serving the terminals for over an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travellers faced chaos at London Heathrow Airport on Sunday, where police said some 21 people were apparently injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,193037,393,4884,14117,37856,257,62993,3144,32569,22358,28885,10547,457,192458,529,140910,29732,16,15,144210],"class_list":{"0":"post-620024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-busy-airport","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-group","13":"tag-hour","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-london-heathrow-airport","16":"tag-man","17":"tag-minute","18":"tag-national-highways","19":"tag-passenger","20":"tag-pedestrian","21":"tag-people","22":"tag-pepper-spray","23":"tag-police","24":"tag-terminal","25":"tag-traveller","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-x-post"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115683931116740722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620024","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=620024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}