It was half-past midnight on 6 June when the unmarked van pulled up outside Shawarma Hut on Walworth Road. Inside, its owner Ali Alsahlane watched as four men, all clad in black and wearing North Face jackets, jumped out of the back and gathered by the windows of the restaurant. For the next ten minutes, they stood, unmoving and unspeaking, and stared into the restaurant at Alsahlane.
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