Daredevil avoids arrest for Shard feat
A daredevil free climber has scaled the Shard – one of the tallest buildings in Europe.
The man was spoken to by police after yesterday’s stunt, but not arrested when he was seen on the side of the skyscraper around 5:15am.
Onlookers posted footage of the climber, who is believed to have made most of the ascent without ropes or suction cups.
The Metropolitan Police said: “Police were called at 5:15am on Monday 8 July following reports of a ‘freeclimber’ on the Shard.
“Emergency services attended and the man went inside the building where he was spoken to by officers. He was not arrested.” Previous climbers who have set their sight son the 310m building include Youtuber Cassonline, who climbed from the public viewing platform to the apex in 2017.
In 2013, a group of Greenpeace activists also scaled the building to protest against oil drilling in the Arctic.
The previous year, the Shard secured a High Court injunction against Alain Robert, the climber nicknamed the French Spiderman, to stop him attempting to scale the building. A spokesman for Real Estate Management, the asset management company that operates the Shard, said: “Public safety and the security of the people who live, work and visit the Shard and the surrounding area is of paramount importance to us.
“Fortunately no-one was hurt by this dangerous activity.”