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Enforcement officers continue efforts to remove protestors from underground tunnels at the HS2 Rebellion encampment in Euston Square Gardens in central London
by Bethany Rielly
News Reporter
HS2 bailiffs battled for more than 14 hours today to remove an activist from a steel and concrete “lock-on” in a London protest tunnel, where opponents of the rail project have come face to face with the eviction team.
A group of at least eight protesters have spent more than a week in the tunnel network under Euston Square Gardens, resisting the construction of the line’s London leg.
Bailiffs of the private-sector National Eviction Team dug a parallel down shaft and on Thursday connected it to the activists’ tunnel, which is said to be 100 feet long.
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