Videos- Citizens Rage Against UK Government

AFP
March 27, 2011

LONDON — Newspapers expressed disappointment on Sunday that the biggest protest in London since the 2003 demonstration against the Iraq war was overshadowed by the violence that erupted afterwards.

More than a quarter of a million Britons marched peacefully through the capital to protest government austerity cuts on Saturday, but a group of demonstrators later went on the rampage, casting a blight on proceedings.

They hurled fireworks and paint at police, attacked shops and the iconic Ritz Hotel, as well as occupying luxury food store Fortnum and Mason.

The leftwing Observer weekly regretted that “the generally good-natured mood was soured by violent and destructive attacks on symbols of wealth including the Ritz, banks and a luxury car dealers.”

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