Fury after Met Cops arrested protester who known as Hamas terrorists however REFUSED to intervene when activists celebrated Houthi assaults within the Purple Sea – as pressure is accused of ‘double requirements’

Police had been accused of double requirements yesterday after arresting a person in London who known as Hamas terrorists – however refusing to intervene when close by protesters celebrated Houthi terror assaults within the Purple Sea.

As hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators marched by means of the capital, a counter-protester carrying a ‘Hamas is Terrorist’ banner was wrestled to the bottom by 4 Met officers and handcuffed.

Surprising footage confirmed one of many arresting officers ripping the signal out of the Iranian man’s palms and screwing it up.

As he was held down, Niyak Ghorbani, 38, shouted: ‘Disgrace on you… I wrote down Hamas is a terrorist organisation… however they arrested me.’ 

Final evening, IT skilled Mr Ghorbani, an exiled Iranian, informed The Mail on Sunday: ‘I feel the police are completely improper. It’s a whole double normal. It’s one rule for the Palestinian protesters and one other for me. It’s hypocrisy.’

Onlookers criticised the heavy-handed remedy of Mr Ghorbani in comparison with the softly-softly strategy in the direction of these glorifying Houthi terror assaults on British ships.

A person with a megaphone repeatedly screamed, ‘Yemen, Yemen, do us proud’ whereas a crowd chanted in response, ‘Flip one other ship round.’

Final week three sailors had been killed on their ship by missiles launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen. The Houthis say the assaults are in help of the Palestinians.

Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith final evening reacted to Mr Ghorbani’s remedy by saying: ‘I can be demanding a full inquiry with a public apology from the police. This Iranian man has accomplished nothing improper in any respect.

‘For a person to be arrested and bundled to the ground by officers, who don’t appear to know the distinction between a peaceable organisation and a terrorist one, is astonishing.’

Jewish Tory MP Andrew Percy stated: ‘For months the police have ignored help for precise terrorist teams on our streets but they discover time to arrest somebody declaring a easy assertion of truth.’

Regardless of witnessing the chanting, two Metropolitan Cops declined to take motion when challenged by an onlooker, who requested: ‘Guys, what that reference is, the Yemen reference… the Houthis, proscribed terror organisation?’

One of many officers shook his head whereas the opposite stated: ‘I’m listening to my earpiece, sorry.’ 

Mr Ghorbani, in the meantime, was later de-arrested and launched shortly after. 

Final evening a Met spokesman stated it was ‘not correct’ that the person was arrested for having an anti-Hamas placard. 

He stated: ‘He was arrested after an altercation was ongoing and officers intervened to forestall a breach of the peace. He was arrested for assault. Officers then totally reviewed footage offered of the incident, and he was later de-arrested. The arrest was not made in relation to the placard.’ 

The incidents occurred throughout the newest nationwide protest in opposition to Israel’s bombing of Gaza – and observe claims that London has grow to be a ‘no-go zone for Jews’ throughout weekend protests.

For the primary time for the reason that battle started, an official counter-demonstration was staged in solidarity with each Israel and British Jews who’ve felt intimidated by the weekly protests.

Organisers stated they needed to reclaim London as ‘a bastion of democracy, variety, and multiculturalism’.

Police stated 4 different arrests had been made at yesterday’s march.

The UK Authorities formally designated Hamas as a terrorist organisation in 2021.

Membership and expressing help for Hamas is an unlawful act within the UK, punishable by as much as 14 years in jail.