Two men, aged 60 and 61, arrested by counter terror police over ULEZ camera explosion
Nobody was injured in the explosion but vehicles and property were damaged.
These are used for billing drivers when they enter an Ultra Low Emissions Zone.
I got two tickets from them despite my car being clean, and had to fight TfLs minions with a lawyer for half a year.
Half a year
So this must be under the old scheme though right I thought the difference between the new scheme and the old scheme was that the old scheme was more about congestion.
Boomers.
To be fair, its a pretty stupid thing to blow something up in public... It doesn't suprise me that this part of the fuzz got involved.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two men have been arrested by officers investigating an explosion in which a ULEZ camera and surrounding property were damaged.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command arrested a 60-year-old and a 61-year-old over the incident in Sidcup, southeast London.
Detective Chief Superintendent Trevor Lawry said: "The explosion could easily have had far more harmful consequences, and today's arrests highlight just how seriously the Met is treating the incident.
"My local officers are continuing to work with and support the Counter Terrorism Command who are leading the investigation due to their specialism in dealing with incidents involving the use of explosives."
After the explosion, a spokesman for the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: "This grotesquely irresponsible behaviour puts both lives and property at risk."
The move sparked fierce opposition and police have recorded more than 1,000 crimes linked to ULEZ cameras being stolen or vandalised.
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I bet that they will go on about their mental health issues. Thats the get out of jail free card for white terrorists.
Mate it's a camera made for punishing poor people. It's hardly terrorism. It's government/council infrastructure, no use to a civillian
An explosive being used to cause serious damage to property in order to "influence a government" is terrorism under the Terrorism Act. This is a leopards eating face moment for those who thought these laws would only apply to brown people.
Literally in the legal definition in the Terrorism Act:
(2) Action falls within this subsection if it:
- involves serious violence against a person
- involves serious damage to property
- endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action
- creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public
- is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system
Also, poor people in London don't generally own cars. Driving is not an efficient way to get around London and it's a luxury.
This is a tax on those better-off Londoners who do drive, and who drive older polluting cars - or who live outside London but drive their older polluting cars into London - to protect air quality for poor Londoners who don't drive but do suffer from the consequences of cars.
Also there's a massive scrappage scheme so that minority of poor Londoners who do drive - and who happen to old a petrol car that's almost old enough to vote - can get thousands of pounds of government money towards a new one.
So you're talking bullshit.
Yeah but it's still terrorism it's a bomb it could blow up at any time it could go wrong and kill someone.
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That’s stupid. A cheap laser pointer would do almost as much damage, but carries far less risk of getting arrested as a bloody TERRORIST!
I really wish people would just stop getting over excited about something that barely affects anyone. This is just because of the Tory rabble rousing. Amazing how many riots and other problems they've directly caused this year isn't it.