SECOND protest tunnel is found in London: Bailiffs find activists in secret crawl space beneath Islington tree encampment - after eco mob got help from Swampy s crew at HS2 barricade in Euston
The new burrow has been put up beneath Dixon Clark Court in Islington, north London, over tree fell plans
Highbury Corner Tree Protection Camp have been up the trees for months before bailiffs arrived today
They discovered a tunnel - just like the one at Euston - and said to have been masterminded by Swampy
‘Protester Removal Technician’ is now a job title
- Credit: Polly Hancock
Islington Council has brushed off claims of a secret tunnel at Highbury Corner as just one person in a hole - but the
Gazette has spoken to a tree protector who claims they have risked their life to help to dig it for the past three months.
The protester, who wants to remain anonymous, began sleeping in the trees in October to prevent seven 50-year-old trees on the Dixon Clark Court estate from being destroyed by the council to make way for a block of flats.
It was apparently after the direct action protest group Extinction Rebellion struck a deal with the council, and left the site to be replaced by the group Save The Trees that the digging began.
A tunnel occupied by environmental protesters has been discovered by bailiffs at the proposed site of a six-storey housing development in Highbury, north
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