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IT WAS THOUGHT to have been a fire started by rioters – but now it appears that the destruction of the Sony Distribution Centre in North London may have been caused by a professional gang.
The Telegraph reports today that the Sony warehouse in Enfield – which stored amongst its stock thousands of albums belonging to the large independent music distributor PIAS – was “deliberately targeted by a professional gang”.
It says evidence has emerged that suggests the fire was in fact a carefully-planned raid and that the organisers were able to use the London riots to distract from their activities.
The fire took hold of the warehouse on 9 August and left 150 independent record labels without hundreds of thousands of units of stock.
Illegal CD Burning is destroying the Music Industry…….
The cops should check Clara (and every other) market for evidence
What evidence would they find there? All the inventory went up in flames..
Clogher springs to mind
I was wondering about this when I saw it on the news. Seemed out of the way for the run of the mill looters but I wasn’t aware at the time that it also was a warehouse for consumer goods. Couldn’t understand why looters would go after CDs and DVDs that the “kids” don’t use anymore. Not sure if the insurance pay out will ever cover the damage to the small labels who got caught up in all this.
Some gang if they pull together a raid like this to take advantage of the the chaos almost a moments notice.
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