Freedom Press Bookshop Firebombed

Tuesday 21st May

Posted at 8:35AM Monday 04 Feb 2013

A long-standing anarchist bookshop has been badly damaged in a suspected firebomb attack.

Police investigating the blaze at the Freedom Press bookshop in Whitechapel High Street, east London, are treating it as suspicious.

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