According to the BBC, the school serves as a coronavirus testing center on Sundays.
A police commander slammed the wedding as “a completely unacceptable breach of the law” and the mayor of the London borough where Stamford Hill is located denounced the event.
“We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature,” Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville was quoted saying in a police statement.
UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis also issued a condemnation.
“This is a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear. At a time when we are all making such great sacrifices, it amounts to a brazen abrogation of the responsibility to protect life & such illegal behavior is abhorred by the overwhelming majority of the Jewish community,” he wrote on Twitter.
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The Metropolitan Police force said officers found hundreds of people packed into the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School with blacked-out windows on Jan 22, 2021. (Photo: AP)
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LONDON: Police in London said Friday (Jan 22) that they have broken up a wedding attended by 400 people despite a nationwide lockdown that bars households from mixing.
The venue was a school whose principal died from the coronavirus last year.
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The Metropolitan Police force said officers found hundreds of people packed into the north London school with blacked-out windows on Thursday night. The force said that “following enquiries it was established that the group had gathered at th
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