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A man trying to throw food to protesters ended up getting told off by an officer when the bag of rice cakes landed on the roof of a police van.
Video taken by Greg Barradale, a reporter for Big Issue, shows the man swinging a bag of food in an orange shopping bag right in front of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s London mansion.
The £25 million mansion in the posh corner of Belgrave Square, near Knightsbridge, was "liberated" by a group of squatters who climbed up to the portico above the entrance.
They draped several banners from the balconies with messages to tell Russia's president Vladimir Putin "go f*** yourself" and calling the Russian oligarchs "power breed parasites".
When the man lets go of the bag of what it is claimed to be rice cakes, it soars through the air only to get blown back onto the roof of the police van.
He quickly covers his face in embarrassment and tries to leave the scene as an officer turns to him.
Another video then showed him being surrounded by police and given what seems like a stern talking to.
Greg wrote in his Twitter post: "A group of protesters have occupied Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s London mansion.
"Surreal scenes as they hold a press conference from the balcony, with reporters behind a police cordon.
"Someone now getting a telling-off from police after trying to throw a bag of food up to the occupiers, and landing it on top of a police van.
"All that’s behind it is a packet of rice cakes that weren’t thrown powerfully enough."
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The protesters reportedly broke into Deripaska's home just 24 hours after cabinet minister Michael Gove told the BBC’s Sunday (March 13) Morning programme that the UK properties of sanctioned Russians could be used by the government.
He said: "There’s quite a high legal bar to cross and we’re not talking about permanent confiscation.
"But we are saying: 'You’re sanctioned, you’re supporting Putin, this home is here, you have no right to use or profit from it – and more than that, while you are not using or profiting from it, if we can use it in order to help others, let’s do that'."
- Vladimir Putin
- Russia
- London
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