THE MET POLICE has called an 87-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor in for questioning over his involvement in a pro-Palestine march, it emerged today.

Stephen Kapos is among a number of activists who has been asked to attend formal police interviews after attending the January 18 protest. 

The Palestine Coalition of campaign groups that organise the marches said that letters had also been sent to Stop the War Coalition officers Lindsey German, Alex Kenny and Andrew Murray (who is also a Morning Star reporter), Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament general secretary Sophie Bolt, Friends of Al-Aqsa chairman Ismail Patel and actor Khalid Abdalla over alleged breached police conditions on the march.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop the War Coalition’s Chris Nineham face trial for alleged breaches of public order offences on the day.

“That a Holocaust survivor is called in by police for the alleged offence of carrying a bunch of flowers into Trafalgar Square underlines the unjustifiable extremes to which the Metropolitan Police are prepared to go, to restrict the right to public protest and silence the Palestine solidarity movement,” the groups said in a statement.

The Met Police was contacted for comment.