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Pro-Palestine activists charged over Israeli drone factory protest
A Palestine Action activist in a car in front of Elbit's Leicester drone factory, April 11, 2024

POLICE have charged two pro-Palestine activists after two cars were driven into bollards outside an Israeli drone factory in Leicester.

Officers were called to the scene of the protest at the Meridian Business Park at around 6.20am on Wednesday.

Today, a spokesman for Leicestershire Police said Adam Stroud, 32, of Birmingham and William Wyerere-Plastow, 33, of Manchester were both charged with aggravated trespass, locking on and criminal damage.

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