The arrested man circumvented the royal guards and climbed the stairs that surround the catafalque to feel the coffin
Thousands of people have wanted to say goodbye to Isabel II during the last few days, since she died on the 8th in Balmoral, where the monarch usually spent the months of August and September. Despite suffering long queues, the vast majority have strictly complied with the rules imposed to pay their respects to the deceased, but yesterday a man set off the alarms by skipping the security perimeter -and thus outwitting ten royal guards- around to the coffin and came to touch the coffin, which rests since Wednesday in the Palace of Westminster.
The Police immediately arrested the man after an “altercation” around 10:00 p.m. local time, a few hours after the children of Elizabeth II carried out the so-called Vigil of the Princes around the coffin. Scotland Yard said in a statement that “the man was arrested for an offense under the Public Order Act and is currently in custody.”
The authorities have not given more details in this regard, although sources quoted by the British newspaper ‘The Guardian’ assure that the detainee climbed the stairs that surround the catafalque on which the coffin rests and touched it. The chains that broadcast the burning chapel live chose to show general images of Parliament at the time of the event.
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