Overview

• Metropolitan Police say a 36-year-old attended a voluntary interview under caution over the Muswell Hill incident, treated as racially aggravated criminal damage and a racially aggravated Section 5 public order offence.
• Footage from Monday shows a woman cutting down ribbons tied to railings in Muswell Hill, telling bystanders the display was “condoning genocide.”
• Reporting identified the woman filmed in Muswell Hill as Nadia Yahlom, described as an Arts Council‑funded PhD student affiliated with the University of Westminster’s Cream research centre.
• New video recorded on Tuesday shows two women tearing ribbons from barriers opposite a synagogue at Henlys Corner in a copycat episode.
• Local residents have replaced the ribbons and police have increased reassurance patrols as enquiries continue into the filmed incidents.