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Voltaire2

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8. hmmm - I was there too, but I have a different recollection, plus there is a photograph.

Sun Oct 18, 2020, 02:29 PM

Oct 2020

The window is barely visible underneath the Haymarket Lounge sign.

I was very near the window. Hundreds of people were being pressed up against it as the 'police' had everyone surrounded and were beating inwards.

Then the window imploded and people literally squirted into the lounge.

If your husband was a bit to the left of the window he might have had a different experience.

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