Vegan protesters removed from Artemis fur shop

About 20 campaigners from the group Direct Action Everywhere Brighton targeted the leather and fur shop Artemis in the North Laine on Sunday to demand retailers end the “torture” and “unnecessary deaths” of animals.

• >> Read More: Shop owner says she was imprisoned by 'vegan vigilantes'

Video footage released on the group’s Twitter page appears to show one protester falling out of the shop’s front door.

It also shows another protester on the shop's floor before being picked up by a Brilliant Brighton ambassador.

The vegan group have now taken to social media to quote Dr Martin Luther King JR, stating: “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” 

The shop’s owner said she was trapped by “vegan vigilantes” who protested inside her store.

Melissa Devabri was alone at the Artemis boutique in Kensington Gardens in North Laine, Brighton, on Saturday when the group came in.

• >> Read More: Shop owner says she was imprisoned by 'vegan vigilantes'

She said: “I know people have got a right to protest, even about a shop. But I could not go in or out of my shop, they had me imprisoned and other shop owners were too frightened to come out.

“I felt threatened by 30 angry, hungry monsters. Their power has gone to their heads.”