On the streets of the district on Sunday night, clashes with local residents by the police. Around 200 young people started to smash windows in nearby shops and caused damage to a police car. "Around a lot of people. It's not a riot, but serious unrest "- so described it in his microblog on Twitter local MP Nick de Bois. Scotland Yard sent a reinforced patrols in Enfield, as well as in several other areas of the city. "We closely monitor all incoming information to us to direct our resources in the right places. No one wants a repetition of scenes that we saw last night at Tottenham, "- said the representative of the Metropolitan Police in London, Christine Jones. Riots broke out on Sunday night in the area of Tottenham, where this week a police officer shot and killed a local resident. The passenger of the private taxi (mini-cab) 29-year-old Mark Duggan was killed Thursday in a shootout with police, who planned to carry out a search in the car. In the shootout also wounded one of the patrol police. Investigation of all circumstances of the incident holds an independent commission on complaints against the police. On Saturday night a crowd of about 300 people gathered outside the police station on the main street of the district Tottenham demanding "justice". According to Scotland Yard, the participants of spontaneous protest threw Molotov cocktails at police cars, and they managed to set fire to two police cars. Subsequently, the rioters also set fire to city bus and began to smash the nearby shops, carrying goods from them. According to the final estimates of the London Fire Service, she had to put out a total of 49 fires in the area. To restore order at the scene were sent to staff units for disaster mass unrest. Only in the morning situation to normal, although, according to witnesses, the protesters moved into the adjacent neighborhoods and continued to raid shops and private homes. The police cordoned off the area on Sunday night riots for investigation and to prevent looting. It was launched a massive investigation into the incident, which was codenamed "Operation Withern». Police examine CCTV footage, eyewitness testimony and other evidence. 55 remain in custody the arrested participants nightly riots, which are suspected of disturbing public order, burglary and theft. During the clashes, a total of about 30 people injured, including 26 police officers, two of whom were hospitalized, ODN ABC during the day of her discharged. All victims received medical attention. According to representatives of Scotland Yard, which began on Saturday unrest came as a surprise to the police. Riots have already condemned the Prime Minister's Office, Home Office, City Hall in London and local MP David Lammy the British Parliament.
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