Protesters seize to roofs as enforcement officers use battering rams in operation to remove activists from north London estateHigh court enforcement officers armed with sledgehammers and battering rams battled to evict more than 100 people from the Sweets Way housing estate in north London so that a developer controlled by the private equity baron Guy Hands can redevelop the site.
There were violent clashes between court officers,police and protesters as a judge ordered the repossession of the domestic of the final tenant living on the former Ministry of Defence housing site in Whetstone. The action left a disabled father of four, Mostafa Aliverdipour, or facing eviction. Late on Wednesday,protesters erected barricades around his house.
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Source: theguardian.com