LONDON (AP) — London’s Olympics chief says the games are showing the true face of the city — exactly a year after riots engulfed it in violence.
Sebastian Coe says the world “saw a London I didn’t recognize” during four nights of mayhem that erupted last Aug. 6.
He added, “what I am seeing at the moment is a London that I do recognize.”
The rioting was triggered by the police shooting, in disputed circumstances, of a 29-year-old man in the Tottenham area of north London. A protest outside the local police station erupted into violence, and arson and looting spread over four nights across the city and beyond.
