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RAF classified the Stansted 15 as an ‘enemy force’
The Star reveals the shockwave the anti-deportation activists sent through the government’s hostile environment policy
Brize Norton airbase
CHILLING Royal Air Force (RAF) files reveal that anti-deportation activists were regarded as “enemy forces” before a secret expulsion flight from its Brize Norton airbase two years ago.
Note point 4 which defines enemy forces as ‘any individual ... that attempt to deliberately delay and/or disrupt the mission’
The RAF issued its sinister definition of protest in the wake of a major demonstration at Stansted airport, where peaceful demonstrators chained themselves to the wheels of a deportation jet bound for west Africa.
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