Riot police called at PPP/C ‘Big Market’ meeting

A contingent of heavily armed police rolls into the Stabroek Market Square at the end of the PPP/C’s meeting last night as a precautionary measure because of tensions there.

By Johann Earle

Riot police were called out to a PPP/C meeting last evening at Stabroek Market Square, where three persons were arrested and others were forcibly removed after being accused of disruptive behaviour.

A senior police officer, who was present at the rally, denied reports of physical assaults by lawmen, while explaining that the arrests were made after supporters of APNU turned up and tried to disrupt the meeting. There was one case, he said, where a policewoman held on to a female and they fell and the girl was pulled away.

Following the disruption at a PPP/C meeting on Wednesday, where one man was allegedly doused with kerosene, police announced that