Angry row breaks out as ‘squatter’ interrupts Remembrance Sunday silence with fireworks launched through a window before furious mourners hurl TRAFFIC CONES at him

• Hudreds of people gathered at Cenotaph for minute silence in Eccles, Salford 
• A ‘squatter’ in disused Albert Edward pub opposite then set off fireworks
• Crowd of angry veterans gathered and tried to break down pub door before police arrived 
• As the man shouts from first floor window someone throws a traffic cone at him
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A ‘squatter’ who disrupted a minute’s silence by launching fireworks from a disused pub has had to be led away by police after provoking anger from mourners.

As the Last Post played and hundreds of people stood in silence to pay their respects at 11am at the cenotaph in Eccles, Salford, a series of fireworks exploded into the sky.

A man, believed to be a squatter at a disused pub across the road from the cenotaph, ignited the fireworks while sat on a ledge of a first floor window.

A crowd of angry veterans soon gathered outside shouting, ‘Get him out!’ and trying to break the door of the pub down, with others attempting to climb up to the window

A crowd of angry veterans soon gathered outside shouting, ‘Get him out!’ and trying to break the door of the pub down, with others attempting to climb up to the window.

A lone police officer stood blocking the door shouting into his police radio as he struggled to hold the crowd back from getting inside, before reinforcements arrived.

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When the squatter, wearing what appeared to be army-style fatigues, appeared at the window to remonstrate with the crowd, a number of traffic cones were launched at him before he retreated back inside.

A second man then appeared at the window, appearing to spit at the crowd, who shouted for him to dare to come outside the pub.

Police reinforcements soon arrived and the man, handcuffed with his head held down, was rushed out of the pub to a waiting police car which quickly sped away.

A large crowd remained at the scene with more people, who appeared to be squatting at the pub, left inside, as a squad of police officers guarded the entrance. 

As he goes back inside the disused pub, someone in the crowd launches a traffic cone at the window, which then hit a policeman standing below

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police said: ‘Shortly after 11.05am today (Sunday 10 November 2019), police were called to reports of a disturbance at a pub on Church Street in Eccles.

‘Officers attended and a 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence. He has been taken to custody for questioning.

‘Initial enquiries suggest that a firework was thrown through the window of the pub.

‘There are no reported injuries.’         

Police reinforcements soon arrived and the man, handcuffed with his head held down, was rushed out of the pub to a waiting police car which quickly sped away

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