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The Mancunian Way: Piccadilly Gardens ‘mayhem’
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Over the last few days, scenes of utter chaos have unfolded in Manchester city centre.
On Friday, a large group of schoolchildren and college students caused 'mayhem' on the last day of term. Police and passers-by were pelted with eggs, trams were forced to stop running and some businesses had to close early. Riot police were called in to enforce a dispersal order and three arrests were made. Footage later emerged of a fight on the platform of the Market Street Metrolink stop.
Then on Monday night, a number of fights broke out across both St Peter’s Square and Piccadilly Gardens after a birthday party was shut down at Rebellion on Deansgate when a knife was thrown over a fence. Police saw trouble flared when around 200 under-18s descended on the city centre, with four police officers attacked and four teenagers arrested.
Piccadilly Gardens has always attracted its fair share of crime and ASB, but it’s rare to see it on this scale. So what’s behind this spate of violence and anti-social behaviour? While some day it’s all par for the course during end of term celebrations, others believe the disorder speaks to a wider problem.
Reporter Chris Slater visited Piccadilly Gardens to talk to workers after two serious incidents involving hundreds of young people.
Rehman Butt, a doorman at a premises close to the gardens, told Chris a number of shops and restaurants closed when violence erupted on Monday. He said two groups of children aged 12 up to 17 were fighting in the gardens and were
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