The Met Police abused anti-terror powers when it stopped and arrested a French publisher at St Pancras station while he was on his way to the London book fair, a review has concluded.
Jonathan Hall KC, the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said in his report that it is “difficult not to sympathise” with some of what Ernest Moret said during examination when he described the decision to detain him and to seize and download his devices as “crazy” and “not normal” in a democracy.
