LED By Donkeys has responded after four people were arrested for projecting images of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle.
The campaign group claimed responsibility for the stunt, which saw images of Trump and Epstein projected onto a tower while a soundtrack questioning the relationship between the two men was played on a speaker.
A letter the US president allegedly sent to Epstein was also projected on to the castle, which read: “To Jeff – you are the greatest! Donald.”
The stunt also displayed pictures of Epstein’s victims, news clips about the case and police reports.
Thames Valley Police said four men were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications after an "unauthorised projection" at Windsor Castle, which they described as a "public stunt".
The Guardian reports that the four men remain in custody, while Led By Donkeys said they were still waiting on information.
The group has since spoken out about the arrests, telling The Guardian it was the first time anyone from the group had been arrested for making a projection.
A spokesperson for the group said: “We’ve done, I reckon, 25 or 30 projections since we’ve been going. Often the police come along and we have a chat to them, and they even have a laugh with us and occasionally tell us to not do it.
“But no one’s ever been arrested before, so it is ridiculous that four of our guys have been arrested for malicious communications.”
The spokesperson added: “Forgive the cliche, but it is rather Orwellian for a piece of journalism, which raises questions about our guest’s relationship with America’s most notorious child sex trafficker to lead to arrests.
“We’re constantly told, you know, we need to see peaceful protests. Well, here’s a peaceful protest … We projected a piece of journalism on to a wall and now people have been arrested for malicious communications.
“I think that, frankly, says a lot more about the policing of Trump’s visit than it does about what we did.”
The US president is currently on an unprecedented second state visit to the UK, which has been met with multiple protests across the country.
A major demonstration took place in London, where around 3000 people were believed to be in attendance.
Meanwhile, an advertising van displaying an image of Trump and Epstein together was reportedly confiscated by police.
The Everyone Hates Elon group had been displaying the van in Windsor on Wednesday morning, where Trump attended a series of private engagements with the royal family.
The National understands that journalists in attendance were held and questioned by police for around 30 minutes.
A video showed police speaking to people outside the van, while another officer was seen driving away the vehicle.
However, Thames Valley Police said that "no arrests were made and no vehicles were seized".
