Protesters shout ‘paedophile’ as they gather outside Buckingham Palace
Anti-mask groups were linked to the protest which claimed to be about stopping child exploitation.
Footage showing a group shouting ‘paedophile’ at the gates of Buckingham Palace has gone viral on social media.
More than three million people have watched the clip recorded at a protest ‘against child trafficking’ at the weekend.
It appears the event has links with controversial anti-mask group Stand Up X, who have been responsible for anti-lockdown protests across the UK, including shouting at shoppers in a branch of Morrisons Supermarket.
The group’s logo appeared on early flyers for the event, which was officially organised by a group calling itself ‘Freedom For Children UK’.
They said the march was intended to ‘bring awareness to the current reality of child exploitation within our own communities and around the world.’
It was one of many planned demonstrations taking place in cities across the world at the same time, according to organisers.
One of the people listed as an organiser, Laura Ward, has previously expressed anti-masks sentiments on her Facebook page, saying there was ‘no f**king way she would wear one, adding: ‘If you don’t think something suspicious is going on, why not? There is so much at stake here.’
Saturday’s protest saw demonstrators walk from the London Eye to the palace and Parliament Square. There was later a planned meditation in Green Park.
The group claim that eight million children, including 200,000 in the UK, are going missing every year.
Speaking on a clip on YouTube Ms Ward said she thought it was part of an ‘evil plan’ and the children were being ‘abused, tortured and raped.’
The Facebook page for the event on Saturday said: ‘We hope to encourage our judiciary systems to provide proper representation to survivors who have been impacted by child exploitation and to serve maximum sentencing to perpetrators of this issue.’
Stand Up X held rallies across the UK last weekend. At the event in Birmingham, speakers told protestors that ‘Covid 19 is a smokescreen for a bigger agenda.’
Attendees were recommended that people should not comply with track and trace efforts and instead tell restaurants they were ‘Mickey Mouse.’
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