Head of Republic campaign group believes detention at coronation was premeditated attempt to kill protests
and the five other key organisers of the main Republican protest.
Smith can see the value of all that now, he says. A friend of a friend spotted him on the TV news in Mexico. “If they were trying to diminish our publicity in order to enhance theirs, it massively backfired, in a spectacular way,” he says. And yet, he appears genuinely troubled as he details for the first time the full extent of the conversations and agreements he had with a senior officer in charge of policing the coronation, Supt Martin Kirby.
At that first meeting the Republic delegation stated their intention to hold a “static protest” at one point and smaller ones further down the procession. “We told them, they said: ‘There’s no problem with any of this. No, that’s perfectly lawful.’
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