Both have been remanded in custody, and police said the arrests related to a recent viral social media trend in which pupils were allegedly encouraged to fight one another in "school wars". Inside the 'vile' Red vs Blue School Wars craze sparking knife crime panic in UK READ MORE :School issues warning over disturbing social media craze targeting children READ MORE :Ensure our latest headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. Posts and viral videos had urged violence in the name of scoring "points" against their peers after they started hitting social media around February this year. In one post, four schools were named and pitted against one another in red and blue teams in a "North London war". They said: "On Sunday, 1 March at approximately 18:45hrs, Met officers arrested two individuals in Central East London in connection with a recent trend of social media posts.

Source: Daily Mirror March 05, 2026 18:02 UTC