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A JURY has acquitted two Palestine supporters after hearing they were preventing a greater crime by attacking an Israeli-owned weapons factory in Leicester.
The two Palestine Action activists appeared at Leicester Crown Court charged with conspiracy to cause criminal damage.
The pair drove a van into the main gates of the UAV drone factory in Leicester on October 18 2023, lit flares, unfurled a Palestinian flag and covered the entrance in red paint symbolising Palestinian blood shed by Israel.
UAV is owned by Israeli-owned Elbit Systems and French arms company Thales and supplies military drones to Israel.
Production was halted during the incident.
The defendants argued that they acted to prevent Elbit’s crimes and save lives in Palestine. The jury acquitted them on Friday.
Palestine Action said: “The activists who shut down Israel’s drone plant in Leicester did so because it is the morally necessary thing to do.
“Their jury agreed – that is why the government is launching attacks on trial-by-jury, because the people cannot abide complicity in Israel’s crimes.”
