Many of the protesters supporting Soldier F are armed forces veterans
Thousands of bikers have taken to the streets of London and Belfast to protest against the prosecution of a soldier implicated in the Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry.
Soldier F is to be charged with murdering two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry in January 1972. He claimed a form of immunity was given to paramilitaries as a result of the peace process — concessions he insisted should be extended to British soldiers who served. The protesters wore leather jackets with patches that showed their biker group, and many veterans bore the insignia of their former regiments.
“So people who don’t know him now are down here essentially showing him that he has our support and the government are bang out of order.” A motorcyclist taking part in the Rolling Thunder ride protest in London. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire
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