Fox held ‘on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage and encouraging or assisting offences to be committed’
Laurence Fox featured on the video streaming site Rumble on Tuesday encouraging people to destroy Ulez cameras and saying he would take an ‘angle grinder’ to them.Laurence Fox featured on the video streaming site Rumble on Tuesday encouraging people to destroy Ulez cameras and saying he would take an ‘angle grinder’ to them.Police have arrested the rightwing commentator Laurence Fox at his home after comments encouraging people to vandalise Ulez cameras.
In the video Fox says: “Look how many coppers there are in my house, look at them coming to steal everything, take everything out of my house. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the country that we live in.” He then gives the camera a thumbs up.In a statement, which did not name Fox, police said: “On Wednesday 4 October officers arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to Ulez cameras and encouraging or assisting offences to be committed.
The Reclaim party posted on social media to confirm Fox had been arrested at his home and taken to a police station.