Pro-Palestinian protesters smashed the windows of twenty Barclays stores in London, Bristol, Glasgow and Manchester and sprayed the facades with red paint and graffiti. The reason: the bank has “connections to the Israeli arms trade and fossil fuels.”
A spokesperson for Palestine Action announced on “X”: “Barclays is financing the crises of climate collapse and genocide in Palestine. Decades of polite campaigns, petitions, letter writing and lobbying MPs had failed in advance.
“Bank is worthless”
They will “continue the escalation until Barclays raises its hand and stops financing genocide and climate destruction.” Compared to human life, the bank is ‘worthless’.
“Do not invest directly in companies”
A spokesperson for Barclays told the Daily Mail: “We provide essential financial services to US, UK and European government companies that supply defense products to NATO and its allies. We do not invest directly in these companies.”
The bank’s spokesperson also said: While we “support the right to protest,” we ask that “activists do so in a way that respects our customers, colleagues and our property.”
City of London Police said three men aged between 34 and 45 were arrested “after a short pursuit” on Monday morning in connection with a criminal damage incident in Moorgate. Many others are currently being sought in dozens of other UK cities…
Source: Krone
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