Overview
- The Met says it is monitoring online spaces under Operation Cedarfield and has asked platforms to disable about a dozen accounts that encouraged or planned violence.
- Viral posts name more than 50 schools across at least 12 boroughs, urge pupils to bring items such as compasses or knives, and offer points for assaults and recorded clips.
- Headteachers have alerted parents, reinforced safeguarding on site and coordinated with police, who are maintaining a strong presence around named schools at start and finish times.
- Posts advertise brawl ‘rounds’ from Friday, 27 February into early March, though authorities report limited confirmed linked incidents so far and pledge firm responses to any disorder.
- The trend has appeared beyond the capital, with Avon and Somerset Police increasing reassurance patrols in Bristol while stating there is no evidence of local incidents linked to the posts.