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According to "Russia Today" (rt), London's annual "million mask march" was held on the 5th local time, and clashes occurred during the parade, with anti-government demonstrators setting off fireworks at the police and even burning the statue of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Protesters marched on Parliament Square, Trafalgar Square and Oxford Street in London that day to commemorate the "Million Masks Parade" held annually on November 5. Rt said the march each year sparks massive demonstrations in which participants protest government overreach, income inequality and, more recently, newly introduced COVID-19 restrictions.
During the march, on this day in honor of historical figure Guy Fox, many demonstrators wore his masks to pay homage to fictional anti-government characters from British screenwriter Alain Moore's comic strip V-Kills.
"Boris lied, someone died," protesters shouted in the streets. At one point, a group of demonstrators burned a statue of Johnson to protest the country's epidemic prevention measures. ↓
RT: The protesters of the "Million Mask March" lit a dummy that looked like British Prime Minister Boris Johnson; the dummy hung a sign with the words "penny for the guy."
During the march, police also clashed with protesters. The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that "a group of people in Parliament Square setting off fireworks and rockets, very dangerous," was forced by police to "step in". London police also said they intervened to "clean up the fireworks and prevent people from being harmed." ”
Protest scene Source: rt quoted from Twitter
London police said nine people had been arrested during the demonstrations and several police officers were injured in clashes with protesters.
According to the BBC, Guy Fawkes (1570-1606) was a figure in English history, born in Yorkshire, England, who was Roman Catholic, with the intention of overthrowing the then Protestant King James I of England and restoring Roman Catholic rule. On November 5, 1605, Roman Catholics, including him, plotted to bury 36 barrels of gunpowder under the Parliament building in an attempt to kill James I and members of the Parliament's nobility during the parliament's session. But just hours before parliament began, the Royal Guards received anonymous warning letters about a plot to blow up the Parliament building.
James I's Guards searched the cellars of the Houses of Parliament and found Guy Fox, who guarded the entrance to the cellars, as well as the explosives inside, thus uncovering the famous gunpowder plot in British history. Although Guy Fox was not the leader of the Catholic Revolution, he was responsible for the eventual ignition of the gunpowder lead. Guy Fox was finally sentenced to death for treason in January 1606 —hanging, ingress removal, etc., and his body was sent to four places in England for public display, warning of the fate of the conspiratorial revolutionaries.
Since the "gunpowder conspiracy" occurred, successive British monarchs have used this day to remind the British people not to forget this history of "treason". Since Guy Fox tried to blow up Parliament, the Yeoman of the Guard has ceremonially inspected the venue before the British monarch presides over Parliament on the day of parliament. Traditionally, the British commemorated November 5 as Guy Fox's Night, where people stuffed dry straw or old newspapers into clothes and pants to make Guy Fox's dummy, known as "the guy." There is a saying that children take "the guy" out on the street to ask for money "penny for the guy", and the children use the money to buy fireworks and play with them, and the dummies are burned on the campfire that night. Now, Guy Fox's Night has evolved into "Fireworks Night", which is the allusion to the British setting off fireworks on this day.