{"id":842982,"date":"2026-03-22T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/842982\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:44:20","slug":"four-detained-after-disorder-in-birmingham-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/842982\/","title":{"rendered":"Four detained after disorder in Birmingham city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting occurred in Victoria Square, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham\u00a0<\/a>city centre at around 3.50pm yesterday (Saturday), although no injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p>A zombie knife was recovered from the area and is now being analysed. Police say they understand while threats were made, the weapon wasn&#8217;t used.<\/p>\n<p>They have detained four boys aged between 14 and 16 on suspicion of violent disorder. They are currently in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1f0697d8-139b-4498-bb0a-11fad11a9577.jpg\"   alt=\"Police stock image\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Police stock image<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said: &#8220;We&#8217;re continuing to review footage and liaise with security staff who were present after a planned demonstration had finished in the area a short time earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigators are working to establish the full circumstances and identify who was involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re asking for anyone with information which can help our investigation to contact us via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/contact\/af\/contact-us-beta\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Live Chat,\u00a0<\/a>or call 101, and quote 20\/186925\/26.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not tolerate violence in Birmingham city centre or the wider region and are committed to ensuring the West Midlands is a safe place for everyone to live, work and visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fighting occurred in Victoria Square, Birmingham\u00a0city centre at around 3.50pm yesterday (Saturday), although no injuries reported. A zombie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-842982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116273366153694759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842982","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=842982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}