British police detained four people who broke into Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s property in northern England, in the middle of the electoral campaign for the parliamentary elections scheduled for July 4. “We arrested four people at the Prime Minister’s home in his constituency (North Yorkshire) on Tuesday afternoon,” local police said in a statement. “Our officers were with the four men within a minute of them passing through the entrance” to the property, located in the Kirby Sigston neighborhood, the statement added.
The suspects, who are between 20 and 52 years old and come from various cities across the country, remain in custody while investigations into the incident are ongoing.
A video published on social media by the activist group Youth Demand – which says it is fighting for an embargo on arms sales to Israel and the cancellation of oil and gas licenses granted by the conservative government from 2021 – shows a new man entering the property and defecating in a pond. “We have a lot to thank the Conservatives for: the collapse of schools, the polluted rivers, the destruction of the NHS,” said the young man, explaining that his action was an act of protest against the Sunak government, according to a press release.
This is not the first time Rishi Sunak’s home has been targeted. Last summer, Greenpeace activists covered it with black sheets, “oil” as they wrote, to protest the Conservative government’s decision to grant new oil and gas licenses.
Sources: AFP, Reuters