Palestine Action activist ‘whipped’ security guard, trial hears View Image

A Palestine Action activist “whipped” a security guard during an alleged attack on an Israel-based defence firm’s UK site, a trial has heard.

Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin are accused of carrying out a “meticulously organised” attack at an Elbit Systems factory in Bristol in the early hours of August 6 last year.

The Palestine Action activists are accused by prosecutors of breaking into the firm’s UK site in a prison van before using sledgehammers as weapons on security guards and police officers while wearing red jumpsuits.

Security guard Angelo Volante told Woolwich Crown Court on Friday that the activists were “armed and threatening us with harm

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