Police to question Holocaust survivor and 'The Crown' star over pro-Palestine protest
Khalid Abdalla, the British-Egyptian star of the hit show The Crown, and 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos are among those who have been ordered to attend formal interviews with the Metropolitan Police over alleged public order breaches at a pro-Palestine rally in London in January.
Abdalla, who played Princess Diana's lover Dodi Fayed in the hit Netflix drama The Crown, said on Monday: "I received a letter from the Metropolitan Police summoning me to attend 'a formal interview' in relations to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest of Jan 18th."
So far, 21 people have been charged so far over the protest, the police said. They include the rally's chief steward Chris Nineham and Palestine Solidarity Campaign Director Ben Jamal.
The Met accused demonstrators on 18 January of breaking through a police cordon in Trafalgar Square, a claim which organisers and protesters, including prominent politicians, strongly deny.
Kapos, 87, who has been summoned for a police interview, was a child survivor of the Holocaust in Hungary who later fled to Britain in the wake of the Soviet invasion in 1956.
