Please attribute to Acting Sergeant Danny Schaare:
Canterbury Police have charged six people with wilful damage following an incident where hundreds of stickers were placed on a store window during a protest on 2 August.
The store has recently seen a number of similar incidents, and the cost of clean up and removal of the stickers is around $1000.
The six charged have also been trespassed from the store and its surrounding complex.
Four males and two females, aged between 28 to 66 are due to appear in the Christchurch District Court in the next week.
In a separate incident, a 74-year-old man was arrested for assaulting Police during a protest on Saturday 16 August.
He is due to reappear in the Christchurch District Court on 10 September.
Police recognise the right to lawful protest, however we can not condone protest action where property is damaged and people are victim of assault.
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Issued by Police Media Centre