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Wales holds 4 pro-Palestinian vandals without bail for targeting defense facility
2022-12-16
[IsraelTimes] Activists to be in jail through Christmas and New Year’s after allegedly causing £500,000 in damage to Teledyne factory, which they claim aids ’Israel’s targeting of Paleostinians’

Four pro-Paleostinian activist muppets have been arrested and charged after breaking in and vandalizing a factory in rural Wales.

The activist muppets were associated with the group Paleostine Action,
...founded in 2020, Palestine Action is as a pro-Palestinian protest network that uses civil disobedience tactics to shut down and disrupt multinational arms dealers. In particular, the group targets UK-based operations that provide weapons used in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It would be interesting to know how many of their members were previously or are concurrently members of other Black Bloc groups like Antifa, BLM, or the Animal Liberation Front...
which claims that the Teledyne Labtech factory in Presteigne, Wales, manufactures "military radars for Israel’s high precision targeting of Paleostinians."

Identified in local media as Susan Bagshaw, 65; Morwenna Grey, 41; Ruth Hogg, 39; and Tristan Dixon, 34, the four activist muppets were remanded into custody without bail on Monday and will next appear before the court on January 6 — meaning they will spend Christmas and New Year’s behind bars.

According to the BBC, the individuals are suspected of causing more than £500,000 in damage to the facility. The activist muppets came armed with hammers, smoke bombs, an angle grinder and a fire extinguisher containing red paint, a Welsh prosecutor told the Welshpool Magistrates’ Court, as reported by The Hereford Times.

Arriving at the factory on Friday, the vandals broke more than 25 windows as well as computers and monitors and other machinery, after using the angle grinder to cut through the roof, prosecutors said. They also threw red paint all over the exterior of the factory.

Paleostine Action claimed that the court decision to hold the four individuals without bail "shows the desperation of the British state to protect Israeli weapons."

After breaking into the factory, the group said it vowed "to continue this action for as long as possible to stop the manufacture or shipment of Israel’s drone technologies and military gear."

The four activist muppets were charged with conspiracy to commit criminal damage and conspiracy to commit burglary.

In a statement from the US-owned defense company Teledyne cited by the BBC, the company said, "We deplore any criminal damage to our sites. Fortunately none of our employees or neighbors were maimed. We are cooperating with local and UK-wide law enforcement agencies."
Related:
Palestine Action: 2020-09-13 Paleos Build Coalition with BLM Activists
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