UK arrests & raids, possibly climate action related

At lunchtime on Wednes­day 26th May two address­es in Belper, Der­byshire, were raid­ed by the North York­shire Counter Ter­ror­ist Unit.

One woman from The Sail­boat Project was arrest­ed on charges of con­spir­a­cy to com­mit crim­i­nal dam­age. She has since been released with­out charge, but bailed to return to the police sta­tion in two months (no bail con­di­tions). Large quan­ti­ties of prop­er­ty was con­fis­cat­ed, includ­ing IT equip­ment and mobile phones belong­ing to the arrestee and to oth­er res­i­dents & vis­i­tors in the house at the time. Anoth­er woman who was away, today hand­ed her­self in to North York­shire police in Sus­sex and has been ques­tioned and released.

One address in Shole­broke Avenue, Leeds was vis­it­ed by police look­ing for spe­cif­ic peo­ple iden­ti­fied as hav­ing tak­en part in kayak train­ing run by the Sail­boat Project in North York­shire in April. The train­ing was pub­licly adver­tised and well attend­ed. The police ques­tioned one indi­vid­ual. Ques­tions includ­ed:
— what oth­er groups are they part of
— why were they on the train­ing
— who else was on the train­ing
— were they plan­ning to take action against pow­er sta­tions

The pre­vi­ous day (Tues­day 25th), police searched the premis­es of a dif­fer­ent organ­i­sa­tion not involved in boats, but with links to var­i­ous gath­er­ings. Noth­ing was tak­en. The war­rant was under the Ter­ror­ism Act and is pos­si­bly relat­ed.

We are not aware of any oth­er con­tact by the police, but plen­ty of oth­er peo­ple were on the train­ing…