metropolitan Assistanl nonce comissoc rau Condon among the first to demand a ban atter Monday August. 'The autos we dic laikue aboul small area of London the past iwo days we have had a murder, 500 serious crimes and 150 people lau their possessions ripped • sald condon.
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Such calls an- = bancar only be descrit: THERE HAVE been renewed calls for the Notting Hill carnival to be banned after this year's two-day event, which attracted more than one million participants, ended in police violence. Tory MP Terry Dicks and others have called on home secretary Douglas Hurd to take this decision 'as a matter of urgency'. Similar calls have been made against the carnival in previous years.
No other mass events — all of which attract the same petty crime as does the Notting Hill carnival - have been greeted with persistent demands for closure.
Year after year this call is made against the nival. The main feature of Notting the larges: carnivai Eurc= 4. = • mi en ine se cond and final day of the oring Hill carnival, carnival-goers sud denly found themselves in streets sealed off by police in riot gear. One of them Hackney MP Diane WaN Abbott. She told Socialist Action:
the was Mangrove carnival troupe. we were Just Inisning out circuit when suddenly we found our way blocked by of police with riot 1UWS shields.
"It was very frightening ior a lot oi ordinary peopie who were caught up in it. Policemen were learle down the streets with their truncaeons uran creceeces Operation Trident -similar operation to the "Swamp' exercise that was carried out Brixton shortly before the uprising there in 1985 had been underway in Notting Hill in the weeks before this year's Carnival organises de oudes lau aucaul warned the police of the trouble that could be provoked by such an exercise.
'While everybody deplores pickpockenng it is important io reme: •nal Wnai napecia ting Hill er Merda:
•re up as they did would -= este lead to trouble at carnivai.
That is just whạt happened. Some people there had experienced weeks and weeks of over-policing *Predictions about tend to become self-fulfilling prophecy because ot the verv largi number of police that are used and that are visible. I can't think of any other cultural event of this nature which is policed in this way.
Speaking after the police attack of Monday 31 August. have made clear that they will continue to oppose all attempts to ban the Notting Hill carnival. They musi have every support. Broadwater Farm Defence Campaiga, Broadwater Farm Residents' Association WE DEMAND: * A Public Enquiry into the uprising on 6th Octobor 1985!
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