Police shut down ultra-Orthodox Jewish wedding with 150 guests amid London lockdown

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London (CNN) Police in London shut down an ultra-Orthodox Jewish wedding with approximately 150 guests on Thursday. Officers responded to reports of a large gathering at a school in north London on Thursday evening, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement Friday. When they entered the facility in Stamford Hill, the statement said, they found hundreds of people packed together in breach of Covid-19 regulations. […] The Metropolitan Police said on Friday afternoon that though “initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.” […] Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said in a tweet that the wedding is “a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear.”

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