LONDON — The Tower of London was closed after a video appeared to indicate activists smearing meals on a show case containing one among Britain’s crown jewels.
Police mentioned 4 protesters had been arrested following the incident simply earlier than 10 a.m. (5 a.m. ET) on Saturday, after studies that meals had been thrown onto the case containing the State Crown.
“Officers labored intently with Metropolis of London Police and safety officers and 4 folks have been arrested on suspicion of legal harm. They’ve taken into custody,” London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned.
“The Tower has been closed to the general public whereas the police investigation continues.”
Historic Royal Palaces mentioned the Crown Jewels weren’t broken in the course of the incident, and confirmed the location had reopened “after closing quickly as police investigated.”
Footage posted on X confirmed a bunch gathered across the show case earlier than hurling meals and dousing one facet of the case in yellow liquid.
“Britain is damaged, we come right here to the jewels of the nation to take again energy,” one of many protestors says.
Take Again Energy, which describes itself as a civil resistance group, posted the video on X and claimed accountability for the protest.
“Two Take Again Energy supporters coated the glass containing the crown jewels in custard and apple crumble,” learn an announcement on their web site, which refers back to the group as a “new nonviolent civil-resistance group.”
The web site requires the U.Okay. authorities to “set up a everlasting citizen’s meeting – a Home of the Individuals, which has the ability to tax excessive wealth and repair Britain.”
The case contained the Imperial State Crown, one of many crown jewels stored within the high-security museum on the Tower of London, one of many metropolis’s oldest landmarks.
King Charles III wore the Imperial State Crown as he left Westminster Abbey following his coronation in 2023. It was made for the coronation of George VI in 1937, intently modeled on a crown made for Queen Victoria in 1838.
