The date has been chosen for a protest by anarchists to coincide with a meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle. The majority of the suspects pictured today are wanted for offences such as violent disorder or rioting and were filmed throwing bricks at or assaulting police. Photographs of 70 suspects have been displayed on the Internet. Thirty-four people have been charged with a variety of offences and 15 people cautioned. Police have taken 1,500 statements and are following 2,779 lines of inquiry.
Police believe the demonstrators came from all over the country.
So far they have arrested people from as far apart as Scotland and Brighton. A few are foreign nationals, but most are believed to be British. The majority are students or squatters. Mr Sharp said statements from members of the public who witnessed the violence confirmed that there were several smartly dressed people who appeared to be orchestrating and organising the trouble. They were at the main trouble spots and they were the ones who were, for instance, stoning police or throwing bricks or who were engaged in the fighting with officers.