Burning shops, looting and threats to passersby - the situation is escalating in England. In London, police found a man bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. Meanwhile, the unrest spread to other cities - also from Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol riots are reported. In the short term the international match against the Netherlands in London's Wembley Stadium has been canceled. The police are overwhelmed with the situation. Prime Minister Cameron has convened the National Security Council.
Burning shops, warehouses and cars, looting and threats to passers-by - escalates the situation in England. The riots continued for three days have been the capital ofLondon expanded and captured other cities. During the night it happened in Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol to massive riots. Eyewitnesses spoke of scenes like in a war zone.
In the London Borough of Croydon was in a car, a 26 year old man identified by police, who was bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. Where are the injuries was unclear. Here also burned an entire street from a furniture warehouse hit during the night meter-high flames.
In London, the police arrested three persons suspected to be police officers attempted murder. The officer was hit early Tuesday morning in Brent in the north of the capital and had to be admitted to a hospital. Together with a colleague - was the slight injuries - he had stopped after the sacking of a nearby electronics business several vehicles. It was a car drove it and I recorded the officials, police said. The vehicle was later stopped and arrested three persons.
Many parts of London are now affected by the escalating violence: from Hackney in the east, via Clapham, Croydon, Lewisham and Peckham in the south, Camden in the north to West Ealing.
Outside of London there came first in Birmingham, the second largest city in England , to riots. A jewelry and electronic stores were looted and a police station was set on fire.
On the night of Tuesday followed the first reports about riots in Liverpool. Several hundred masked men were drawn there by the road, stopped passing cars, forcing the passengers to disembark and then put the cars on fire. Also from Bristol in the early morning hours first riots were known.

Groups of violent rioting in the streets, children

The British Home Secretary Theresa May defended the police action. "In the UK we hold anyone back with water cannons, "said May in a television interview. Instead, they sit on the cooperation of local people - work that way British policing. She called the parents of the rampaging youths and representatives of the communities to help the authorities to identify the perpetrators of violence in the images of surveillance cameras.
The police seem to have been completely overwhelmed with the situation. 1700 additional officers were sent into the early hours of Tuesday in the riot areas of London, yet the spread of chaos and violence. Even groups of violent children between ten and 14 years should have participated in the riots. The Metropolitan Police urged parents to keep their children in on Tuesday night at home. Plans to enlist, the armed forces to resolve the violence, there is as yet not according to the London police chief.

"The Battle of London"

"What happened here can not simply be excused," said Scotland Yard chief Christine Jones. "The Battle of London," wrote British newspapers. Prime Minister Cameron responded to the continuing and growing violence and cut short his summer holiday.On Tuesday, the National Security Council should meet for a special session to discuss the situation and possible countermeasures.
"Opportunistic criminals," Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg called the rioters that they had already "big scar" left behind in society. Clegg also Interior Minister, Theresa May had returned early from vacation. May denounced the riots as "crimes".The violence has reached such proportions that Britain had not seen in years.
More than 450 people were arrested in the past three nights in London alone, where now all the jail cells are occupied. May wants to meet with the head of the Metropolitan Police and other senior security forces to discuss their strategy.