Criminal damage investigations underway and five arrests made since April, said GMP
Criminal damage investigations have been launched by police after branches of the high street bank Barclays in Greater Manchester were targeted with red paint and had their windows smashed in early hours attacks.
Campaign group Palestine Action said it has 'targeted' 20 branches of Barclays across England and Scotland today.Images of paint thrown over windows and doors, and smashed windows and doors, echo similar scenes at a number of Barclays branches across Greater Manchester last week. The branch on Market Street in Bolton was targeted, as well as two branches on Market Street and Mosley Street in Manchester city centre.
A spokesperson for GMP told the M.E.N.: "We are investigating two reports of criminal damage from the early hours of this morning involving red graffiti over buildings on Central Street, Bury and Bridge Street, Stockport. Palestine Action said branches in Moorgate, Palace Street, Richmond, Croydon, Wellington Road and Peckham in London were targeted, along with Barclays banks in Glasgow, Exeter, Sheffield, Brighton, Northampton, Bristol, Birmingham, Solihull and Preston, Bury and Stockport, as well as an office in Edinburgh.
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