London’s Metropolitan Police could risk “two-tier policing” accusations over not cracking down on apparent antisemitic graffiti, MPs have warned.
A total of 10 Conservative MPs have written to the force’s commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, telling him that unless the Met gets to grips with a spate of alleged criminal damage on buildings across the capital, it risks the condemnation of the British public.
Their letter comes as Tory pressure group the Conservative Way Forward (CWF) moves to publish a report into protest group, the London Creatives Corporate Watchdog (LCCW).
Said report, set to be published next week, will claim that an attack on one of London’s oldest cinemas, the Phoenix in East Finchley, is one of dozens of attacks by the LCCW.
The 10 Tory MPs have written to Sir Mark Rowley
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The Phoenix Cinema was daubed with graffiti which read “say no to art washing”
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The CWF has pointed to how premises with links – or even alleged links – to Israel, or owned by Israelis, have been vandalised and daubed with graffiti.
It’s set to detail examples of LCCW allegedly targeting London businesses including The North Face, PureGym, Gail’s and Champion over their role in a so-called “genocide in Gaza”.
While In their letter, the MPs – including ex-Tory chairman Richard Holden, former shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell, Bob Blackman and Sir John Hayes – cite the report which they say “documents and evidences LCCW’s systemic criminality, which it has broadcast to its thousands of followers on its social media channel”.
The 10 have warned Rowley that failure to deal with these crimes in a similar manner to the summer’s unrest will mean the British public “rightly conclude that there is a system of two-tiered policing and justice in this country, in which some groups are treated more harshly than others”.
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