A pro-Palestine group has gatecrashed UEFA's official launch event for the 2028 European Championship in London.
European football's governing body held a launch party at the Under The Lights venue in Piccadilly Circus on Wednesday night, attended by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin and other high-profile figures from across the sport.
A noisy group with ‘Free Palestine’ flags protested outside the venue, holding banners which also read ‘You are complicit’, ‘Show Israel the red card’ and ‘Offside for genocide’, among others.
They shouted ‘blood on your hands’ and ‘shame on you’, and chanted ‘Kick Israel out’ amid calls to ban the country from sports events following the Gaza conflict.