Calgary Herald

SIX ARRESTED IN TOWER EFFIGY VIDEO

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London police said Tuesday that they have arrested six men over a video that showed a cardboard model of Grenfell Tower being burned on a bonfire — an act condemned by bereaved families and survivors of the apartment-block blaze that killed 72 people.

The Metropolit­an Police force said five men turned themselves in at a police station late Monday and were arrested on suspicion of a public order offence after allegedly creating a copy of the fire-ravaged west London public housing tower. A sixth man handed himself in to police on Tuesday.

The men, who range in age from 19 to 55, were being held in custody Tuesday but had not been charged.

Survivors of the blaze expressed disgust at the video, which showed a large flammable model marked “Grenfell Tower” being set on fire.

Prime Minister Theresa May called the video “utterly unacceptab­le.”

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