LONDON — Church and local government authorities are going to court to evict anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St. Paul’s Cathedral — though officials acknowledged Friday it could take weeks or months to get an order to remove the tent city.
As the iconic church reopened after a week-long closure triggered by the protest, the City of London Corporation said it was launching legal action on the grounds that the protest is an “unreasonable user of the highway.” Scores of tents are pitched on the pedestrianized square in front of the cathedral and near a footpath alongside the building.
Several hundred protesters against economic inequality and corporate greed have been camped outside the building since Oct. 15, inspired by New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement. On Oct. 21 cathedral officials shut the building, saying the campsite represented a health and safety hazard.
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