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dimanche 14 août 2011

Weekend under surveillance in Britain

For the third consecutive time, no significant incidents were reported during the night from Friday to Saturday, but the security forces, deployed en masse, remained on high alert fearing that the weekend is the opportunity to further slippage between football matches and pub nights watered. A manifestation of the Defence League Français (EDL), an extreme right movement, has also been banned near Birmingham (center).
As many as 16,000 police officers are still deployed in London where there were parts of the riots last Saturday, after the burning of the deprived area of ​​Tottenham in the north of the capital. The game of the first day of the Premier League between Tottenham and Everton on Saturday afternoon was postponed at the request of the police, but the remaining nine games are held. Such as second, third and fourth British divisions expected in London this weekend.1600 arrests
The police continued to cons-offensive, multiplying the arrests more than 1,600 people have been arrested, including 1,222 in the capital alone. The courts, who work tirelessly for several days, will hold special hearings this weekend to deal with the influx of suspects.
Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, who advocates the hard way in the face of "criminal" acts, even hoped that the troublemakers have no right to housing. "If you live in public housing, you get a home at a reduced price and it gives you responsibility," Mr Cameron launched, criticizing the "too soft attitude" prevailed against looters.
City Council Wandsworth, an area of ​​south London, has also issued a notice of eviction against a tenant whose son is suspected of involvement in violence. The final decision will be up to a judge. Also circulating an electronic petition, which calls the rioters are deprived of their social rights. She has already collected over 160,000 signatures, which opens the possibility for Parliament to be seized if they wish.A former New York policeman consultant
To eradicate the problems, Mr Cameron also called on the former police chief Bill Bratton in New York to work as a consultant to Scotland Yard and to share its experience in the fight against urban violence. Bill Straton, who also directed the police in Boston and Los Angeles, will take part in a series of meetings in the fall with its British counterparts, particularly on the issue of gangs, singled out several times this week by the government for their role in the riots. But he has already warned the British authorities that the increase in arrests was not a sufficient answer. "It is not enough to make arrests to solve problems," he told The New York Times. "(...) It will take a lot of techniques and prevention strategy. "
The Minister of Economy, George Osborne, has supported this approach, arguing that the problem was not to reconsider the budget cuts that affect the police, but to address the underlying problems. "There are social problems whose roots are very deep that must be addressed," he said, referring to "communities that were left out from the rest of the country."
Eight days after the burning of Tottenham, the British press began to make a first assessment of "one of its most humiliating week" since the post-war Britain, which has "changed" forever the face the country. "In one week, Britain we knew is gone forever," said the Daily Mirror as well, alongside a photo of police officers surrounding one injured in a London street in flames.
 

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