European Knight
06-30-2015, 04:46 PM
Eastern European group using memorial plaque as dinner table
Rough sleepers have sparked outrage by camping at the 7/7 memorial and turning the plaque inscribed with the names of the 52 victims into a dinner table.
The memorial site in Hyde Park is also being treated as a makeshift toilet by the homeless eastern European group, triggering anger among survivors of the 2005 terrorist attack on London.
They have been captured on camera putting their possessions on the memorial with apparently no awareness of what it represents.
A series of 10th anniversary events to remember the victims of the suicide bomb attacks on three Tube trains and a bus in Tavistock Square are planned for next week, including a visit to the memorial by the Prime Minister.
The rough sleepers have been branded “deeply disrespectful” for the way they are treating it. They clutter the site with their sleeping bags, cases and black sacks overnight and move on early the next day to evade the authorities,
according to witnesses.
One onlooker said: “They were there when this poor person went to pay their respects to the dead early one morning. What he saw was basically a rubbish heap and the rough sleepers did not move. They seem ignorant of what the
memorial means.
“At one stage they used the memorial plaque as a dinner table, it was disgusting. One of the group was even using the site as a toilet. This is just so out of order.”
The group of around a dozen rough-sleepers was camped at the memorial all last week. Many also use nearby Marble Arch as a temporary home.
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Rough sleepers have sparked outrage by camping at the 7/7 memorial and turning the plaque inscribed with the names of the 52 victims into a dinner table.
The memorial site in Hyde Park is also being treated as a makeshift toilet by the homeless eastern European group, triggering anger among survivors of the 2005 terrorist attack on London.
They have been captured on camera putting their possessions on the memorial with apparently no awareness of what it represents.
A series of 10th anniversary events to remember the victims of the suicide bomb attacks on three Tube trains and a bus in Tavistock Square are planned for next week, including a visit to the memorial by the Prime Minister.
The rough sleepers have been branded “deeply disrespectful” for the way they are treating it. They clutter the site with their sleeping bags, cases and black sacks overnight and move on early the next day to evade the authorities,
according to witnesses.
One onlooker said: “They were there when this poor person went to pay their respects to the dead early one morning. What he saw was basically a rubbish heap and the rough sleepers did not move. They seem ignorant of what the
memorial means.
“At one stage they used the memorial plaque as a dinner table, it was disgusting. One of the group was even using the site as a toilet. This is just so out of order.”
The group of around a dozen rough-sleepers was camped at the memorial all last week. Many also use nearby Marble Arch as a temporary home.
Rough sleepers set up camp at 7/7 bombing memorial in Hyde Park - London - News - London Evening Standard (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/deeply-disrespectful-rough-sleepers-set-up-camp-at-77-bombing-memorial-in-hyde-park-10354248.html)
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