UK police have arrested five men in relation to an online video that shows a cardboard model of Grenfell Tower set ablaze, mocking last year’s tragic inferno that destroyed the West London apartment building killing 72 of its residents.
London’s Metropolitan Police said Monday that the men aged between the 19 and 55 and were suspected of a “public order offense” as investigation continued into the video.
The suspects handed themselves into South London police late on Monday.
The harrowing video, which has now gone viral, shows a group of people placing a cardboard Grenfell Tower with residents painted in some of its windows in the center of a bonfire.
The anonymous clip then shows onlookers mimic the screams of the residents who were killed in the huge fire that engulfed the housing tower block in June 2017.
As the effigy starts to catch fire, bystanders can be heard on the video shouting in a mocking manner “Help me, help me,” while one…