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PHOTO FILE: Women watch a reserve covered with messages of condolence at the base of Grenfell Tower a year after the fire in Britain, London, June 13, 2018. REUTERS / Peter Nicholls
LONDON (Reuters) – British police arrested five men after the internet released a video showing men mocking the deadly Grenfell Tower fire by burning an effigy of the building as part of the celebrations. the night of Guy Fawkes.
The video that appeared on social media showed a cardboard model of the tower with carvings of people at the windows being lit on a bonfire while those watching were laughing and doing jokes.
The Grenfell Tower, a block of social housing housing a very united and ethnically diverse community, was ravaged by the flames in the middle of the night of June 14, 2017, killing 71 people in the country's deadliest fire since the Second World War.
"Disrespecting those who lost their lives in Grenfell Tower, as well as their families and loved ones, is totally unacceptable," said Prime Minister Theresa May on Twitter.
Police said five men, aged 19, 46, 55 and two 49, had been arrested on suspicion of breach of public order after being handed over to a police station. police in South London.
In early November, towns and villages in Britain set up fireworks and burn the effigies of Guy Fawkes, the Catholic tracer who tried to blow up Parliament in 1605.
Larger celebrations often burn celebrities with the effigy of the flamboyant ex-foreign minister, Boris Johnson, who was torched at many events this year, while previous targets included the president of United States, Donald Trump.
Report by Michael Holden; edited by Guy Faulconbridge
