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# Tuition fee riots: protesters arrived at demo armed and ready for violence
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## Protesters at the demonstration against tuition fees yesterday arrived in
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central London armed with hammers and intent on violence, attacking buildings,
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police officers and journalists recording their actions, including me.
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![A protestor (Foreground) pretends to read a book as a vandalised portakabin
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is set on fire during student demonstrations in Parliament Square: Protesters
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arrived at demo armed and ready for violence][1]
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A vandalised portakabin is set on fire during student the demonstrations in
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Parliament Square Photo: AFP/GETTY
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[![Andy Bloxham][2]][3]
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By [Andy Bloxham][4] 12:03PM GMT 10 Dec 2010
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[Comments][6]
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After night fell, the temperatures plunged and many of the students at the
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protest gathered in clumps to sing, dance, chant or simply shiver together and
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lit small fires to keep warm.
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At the same time, gangs of teenage vandals began to become visible among the
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protesters. They overturned a disused plastic police booth and torched it,
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took placards off students and fuelled the flames.
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Mostly aged between 14 and 18, the boys were keen to keep their faces covered.
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Some used scarves and hoods, others glared out through black balaclavas.
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As they strutted around the square, smoke billowing from burning plastic
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against the backdrop of Parliament, some picked up placards, stripped them of
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the paper slogans and slapped the sticks into their palms as they walked.
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At around 5.30pm, I was sending quotes to the newsdesk from a corner of
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Parliament Square away from the front line when one of the gangs targeted the
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red phoneboxes by the Treasury building.
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One by one, they began to smash each pane of glass in each box. One used the
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handle of an umbrella, several used stones, and all were only enthused by the
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desperate attempts by students, including young women, to stop them.
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An Iranian television correspondent called Hassan Ghani was describing the
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day's violence live on air to viewers of PressTV when his Hungarian cameraman,
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Adam Apostol, panned around and captured the yobs.
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Within seconds, a cry went up ordering him to stop and they sprinted towards
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the crew. Mr Apostol kept filming but retreated backwards as quickly as he
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could.
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He was caught and pulled to the ground by the camera.
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The gang formed around him and began to kick his body and equipment as he
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covered his head.
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No police officers were visible here so a few bystanders - including me -
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placed ourselves in between and shouted at the yobs to desist.
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The words had little effect and blows began to land on us. Unthinking, I
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shouted back at the yob nearest me, a boy of about 16 with acne and a
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Mediterranean appearance.
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He reached into a chest pocket and pulled out a claw hammer.
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He drew back his arm and his elbow tipped forwards to deliver a blow before I
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could react but one of the gang grabbed his arm.
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More shouting and sporadic kicking - but nothing worse - followed before the
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gang left, spitting on the ground and muttering obscenity-laden threats. Off
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to smash something, or someone, else.
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