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Twelve now arrested following today’s EDL rally

By Nadia Sam-Daliri

Published: 8:38 PM September 3, 2011 Updated: 8:34 AM October 14, 2020

Twelve people have now been arrested after today’s English Defence League demonstration.

The far right group was cordoned into an area close to Aldgate Tube station by police today as a counter demonstration by anti fascist campaigners took place in Whitechapel Road.

The arrests relate to offences including affray, drunk and disorderly behaviour and assault on a police officer.

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