Police have made seven arrests after hundreds of Albanians gathered in central London to celebrate Independence Day. An estimated 1,000 people gathered near Waterloo Station and Embankment on Tuesday evening to mark the bank holiday in Albania, observed on November 28. Metropolitan Police said they made seven arrests after a breakaway group turned violent. Offences included assaulting police officers, throwing fireworks and failing to comply with a dispersal order, which was in place until 4am on Wednesday and stretched as far as Soho and Westminster. Earlier, the police said it estimated "around 1,000 people" had gathered in Belvedere Road as part of a demonstration.They said a man was arrested for throwing a firework while two cars were stopped because people were "waving Albanian flags through the sunroofs of moving cars".More arrests were made after a breakaway group ended up in York Road and became "confrontational and aggressive with bottles thrown towards officers".