The Metropolitan police have stormed a house reportedly belonging to Jewish-Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska after anti-Russian demonstrators began squatting in the house this morning.
The house, in London's Belgravia was occupied this morning by protestors with posters emblazoned with anti-Russian slogans including "F**K Putin" in Russian.
Tons of police at the Belgrave Square occupation of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's London property.
— Jessica Frank-Keyes (@JessicaFKeyes) March 14, 2022
Officers shooing away anyone without an accredited press card.. pic.twitter.com/i4TJ6v9UBg
Officers from the Metropolitan police's Territorial Support Group were seen attending the house with riot control equipment and heavy machinery to force entry into the property.
A JCB has pulled up to the building. Protestors calling police scum and Nazis.
— Jessica Frank-Keyes (@JessicaFKeyes) March 14, 2022
"This is why everyone hates the Met." pic.twitter.com/Mxu5ZtHWWz
Deripaska, one of the oligarchs sanctioned by the UK government last week, is the reported owner of the estimated £50,000,000 mansion in the exclusive area of London.
Oligarch Deripaska, whose parents were Jewish, made his fortune in metals and is the former owner of United Company Rusal, the second-largest aluminium company in the world.
