Met police ‘tried to recruit ex-officer to spy on climate change activists’
by Tom Wall from on (#5MHWF)
Former detective says he was asked to inform on fellow Extinction Rebellion campaigners
A former police officer who is now a prominent climate crisis campaigner has accused the Metropolitan police of attempting to recruit him to spy on Extinction Rebellion.
Former detective sergeant Paul Stephens, who joined XR after he retired from the London force in 2018, claims he was approached by an officer he knew near Parliament Square during the group's campaign of non-violent mass civil disobedience in London in October 2019.
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