- Anarchist groups plan to disrupt emergency services in
their campaign of chaos on May 1 by encouraging their followers to make
hundreds of bogus alarm calls. They want protesters to create bomb scares
at London,- main rail and Underground stations, which would swiftly paralyse
the capital. The leaders are also suggesting raising fire alarms in streets
choked with protesters. Police are worried about the dangers to genuine
emergency calls if the groups carry out their threat, which one senior
officer described as ,"mindless and irresponsible,".
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- The anarchists also plan to set up fake road-blocks and
immobilise vehicles to increase the chaos.
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- The promise by Tony Blair, Scotland Yard and Ken Livingstone,
the Mayor of London, of a ,"zero tolerance," policy to ensure
that the city stays open is regarded as a challenge by the protest organisers.
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- One leading figure said yesterday: ,"They boast
that it will be business as usual on May 1, and we will show them otherwise
to make our point.,"
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- Public buildings will again be a target, with a plan
to barricade No 10 by padlocking the gates of Downing Street. The climax
of the protest will be in Oxford Street, where protesters are being urged
to pour into shops and department stores to block the doors so that customers
cannot come or go. As soon as police arrive, the protesters will be told
to disperse and move to a different target.
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- Specialist police teams are intensifying their electronic
warfare against the organisers to unmask the ringleaders and discover their
targets. Detectives know that they are being bombarded with misinformation
in this high-tech battle and are trying to crack encrypted e-mails that
the leaders are using to discuss tactics.
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- Police have the power to shut down Internet sites, but
they say that they prefer to leave them running and to monitor them. It
was through electronic mail that police first found details of the Mayday
Monopoly, where demonstrators pick addresses from the board game to match
targets for the protest.
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- Homeless groups will descend on Park Lane, protesters
against Third World debt will gather in the Strand, and groups trying to
drive cars off London,- streets will begin the day with a slow cycle ride
at King,- Cross station.
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- The latest threat on the Internet is a campaign of looting
designated businesses called ,"Sale of the Century,", taken from
the Seventies television game show of that name. Some student groups have
threatened to boycott the May 1 protests if the looting is not dropped.
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- Police are investigating links between British groups
and a band of international anarchists called Black Bloc, which was heavily
involved in the weekend,- riots at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec.
Three of its leaders were among the masked figures arrested during the
trade summit siege.
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- Black Bloc was at the centre of attempts to disrupt George
W. Bush,- presidential inauguration in January and the violent protests
at the World Trade Organisation summit in Seattle last year. It has proposed
joining the London demonstration and has sent ideas on how to disrupt the
city.
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- Their plans have been translated into four languages
and distributed on the Internet to make it easier for activists from Europe
to join the protest. The Italian anarchist movement known as Ya Basta is
expected to attend. It has been linked to the hijacking of a train in Italy,
and British protest groups are known to have studied its tactics and been
in contact with its leadership.
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