LONDON: A cafe owner in the UK has said police attempted to recruit him as a mole in Palestine Action, The Guardian reported on Saturday.
Shams Sadiq, the owner of two cafes in Manchester, said he was offered financial incentives and amnesty over low-level offenses if he spied on the pro-Palestine group.
The offer was made when he traveled to collect electronic devices that police had confiscated during his arrest last year, Sadiq said.
He was arrested in connection with alleged offenses relating to Palestine Action, a proscribed terrorist group.
At Ashton-under-Lyne police station on May 15, two police officers, who Sadiq believes were from Operation Wildflower — a Manchester police plan to address concerns over activism — approached him and requested to speak “man to man.”
