A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of urinating on a plaque installed in honor of a police officer killed in a 2017 terrorist attack near the British parliament, London police said on Sunday.
Photographs of a man urinating near the monument on Saturday, as far-right activists protested in central London, throwing projectiles and attacking police, have been widely circulated on social media, provoking outraged reactions .
A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of "contempt of public decency" after presenting himself at a police station, Scotland Yard said.
Policeman Keith Palmer, 48, was stabbed to death in March 2017 near parliament by Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old Briton converted to Islam and known to the police who had just mowed pedestrians with his car on the Westminster Bridge.
A total of five people died in the attack claimed by the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group.
Interior Minister Priti Patel deemed the degradation of the plaque posed in tribute to the police officer "absolutely appalling and shameful", also condemning the clashes between far-right activists and the police, who carried out a hundred arrests Saturday.