Police to interview Crown actor over Gaza rally

Actor Khalid Abdalla says helium has been told to be a constabulary interrogation pursuing a pro-Palestinian protestation successful January.

Abdalla, who played Dodi Fayed successful Netflix bid The Crown, said connected societal media helium had received a missive from the Metropolitan Police connected Thursday.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed to the BBC that 8 radical had been "invited to beryllium interviewed nether caution astatine a constabulary station" arsenic portion of an "ongoing probe into alleged breaches of Public Order Act conditions connected Saturday 18 January".

In an Instagram post, Abdalla said it remained to beryllium seen if charges would result, adding that "the close to protestation is nether onslaught successful this country".

Abdalla, who besides starred successful United 93, The Kite Runner and The Day of the Jackal, is 1 of Hollywood's astir outspoken actors connected the Gaza-Israel war. He has publically called for a imperishable ceasefire.

The histrion has attended respective pro-Palestinian demos, including the 1 connected 18 January helium volition beryllium interviewed by the constabulary about.

And helium was a signatory to the Artists for Palestine UK unfastened missive to the BBC successful February, criticising the corporation's decision to propulsion a documentary astir children's lives successful Gaza aft it discovered its 13-year-old narrator was the lad of a Hamas official.

Abdalla is not the archetypal nationalist fig to look a constabulary interrogation pursuing the January rally.

The erstwhile Labour person Jeremy Corbyn and erstwhile shadiness chancellor, John McDonnell, have already been questioned by officers.

The Met has not identified the brace but said astatine the clip that 2 men, aged 75 and 73, had subsequently been "released pending further investigations".

A static rally involving respective 1000 radical took spot successful Whitehall aft constabulary blocked plans to clasp a march from Portland Place, adjacent the office of the BBC.

Police said conditions had been intelligibly communicated that those taking portion successful the protestation should stay successful Whitehall.

"Despite this, a ample radical made its mode from Whitehall into Trafalgar Square and successful immoderate cases attempted to spell further."

Police said that a fig of radical successful that radical person been arrested connected suspicion of breaching the conditions - and that truthful far, 21 had been charged.

The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, which organised the protest, said: "What is claimed by the constabulary arsenic justification for this monolithic overreach of their powers is simply a implicit misrepresentation of what took place, not conscionable connected the time but beforehand."

And it added: "We request that the Metropolitan Police halt immoderate prosecutions oregon proceedings against those progressive successful this wholly peaceful protest."