Re: Latest ANL stupidity

Date: 4th Aug '02

Name: mw

Wondered if this might be a wind up when I read it but apparently not. The BNP supporter in question owns a jewellers shop which sells busts of Hitler amongst other things. The shop now has CCTV after past protests which may explain the brave decision to trash the nursery instead

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http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk

Anti-Nazi protesters attack city nursery

July 30, 2002 13:38

The wife of a jeweller who has been targeted by anti-Nazi protestors has had her city nursery attacked by vandals.

Staff at St Giles Nursery in St Giles Street turned up for work yesterday morning to find Nazi-related graffiti covering the walls and windows smashed.

Malcolm Turner, whose wife Sally runs the nursery, has a jewellers opposite and has been targeted by anti-Nazi protestors after putting up British National Party posters on his door during the recent city council elections.

One of the baby rooms had to be closed yesterday after the break-in, but the nursery remained open.

Mr Turner said around 20 windows had been broken in the attack and he was still receiving threatening phone calls at his jewellers, which had anti-Nazi stickers plastered over the windows after he displayed two BNP posters in the shop.

Mr Turner also sells Hitler busts, although a sign in the window yesterday said he had currently sold out.

Police spokesman Nina Terry said: "It is not entirely clear as to the motive behind this crime, or exactly when it occurred. We would appeal to anyone who may have seen any suspicious activity around the premises over the weekend to contact us."

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Trader told to take down BNP posters

July 10, 2002 13:08

ON SHOW: The bust of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the window of the antiques shop.
A SHOPKEEPER who sparked controversy after displaying leaflets by the British National Party has been told by police to cover them up for his own safety.

Officers have asked Malcolm Turner to remove the literature from his door to prevent a repeat of May's flashpoint when Anti- Nazi League Protesters gathered outside his shop in St Giles' Street.

Some shouted "smash the BNP" as Mr Turner became involved in heated exchanges with the protesters, who had been part of an official march led by former city councillor Eamonn Burgess.

A sign outside his store warns CCTV cameras are trained on his front window — which holds a miniature bust of former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler — to deter future attacks.

And a police spokeswoman today confirmed they had asked Mr Turner to remove the BNP articles.

"We haven't instructed Mr Turner to remove any items from his window, but we have looked at asking him to remove the BNP literature when there have been demonstrations carried out to avoid problems," she said.

"We do monitor activity on the cameras around his shop, and especially if there are any events taking place."

Mr Turner today said he had agreed to "mask" the articles during protests but refused to take them down.

He added the bust of Hitler was simply part of his stock which he had imported from France, and not an icon symbolising his political beliefs. And he criticised the Anti-Nazi League for placing posters around the city demanding Mr Turner remove the leaflets from his shop.

"I am not a member or supporter of the BNP, but I have gone through their literature with a fine toothcomb," he said.

"I told the police I would not remove it, but I would mask it during the protest."

In May demonstrators staged a noisy demonstration outside his shop, which sells jewellery and antiques.

The march by the Norwich branch of the Anti-Nazi League was to officially end at The Forum, but a breakaway section moved on to Mr Turner's shop to demand the material — which protests about building on Green Belt land — be taken down. There was one arrest at the break-away protest, in which Mr Burgess was not involved.

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