2021-08-27 08:31:51
A person has been charged after allegedly assaulting a police officer throughout a violent anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne’s CBD final weekend.
Victoria Police mentioned detectives searched a southeast Melbourne property on Friday morning as a part of an investigation into a number of assaults of law enforcement officials at Saturday’s rally.
Consequently, a 44-year-old Mulgrave man has been charged with affray, assaulting an emergency employee on obligation and breaching well being instructions.
The person has been launched on bail and can seem at Melbourne Magistrates Courtroom in February subsequent yr.
Police have additionally recognized two different protesters who took half within the demonstration after urging eight to come back ahead on Thursday.
Inquiries are actually underway into these two people, police mentioned, however investigators are nonetheless trying to communicate to 6 individuals in regards to the protest.
Earlier this week, Victoria Police Commissioner Shane Patton described the protest as one of the violent town has seen in 20 years, with officers pressured to make use of non-lethal weapons to defend themselves.
Greater than 200 protesters had been arrested and 236 fines totalling virtually $1.2 million had been issued.
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