London (CNN) - British riot police moved in on Wednesday morning to clear a group controversial illegal housing after a legal battle for a long time, and despite United Nations of a different resolution.
Smoke rose from Dale Farm composed in Essex, about 30 miles east of London, as police dragged people outside. An elderly woman in a wheelchair has been among the deleted.
At a mobile home was burned down.
Eviction "threat 83 families with homelessness," residents of firm Dale said Wednesday at the start.
"Only premeditated violence comes from the police." They knew exactly what they were doing when they began beating and tasering people, "said Mary Sheridan, a resident left the site Dale farm and is staying with a parent."
"This is not how a community should be treated by his own Council." It is illegal for us to travel, but it is illegal for us to move here. "We are going to get beaten by the police, but we have nowhere where to go, said."
There was an air of resignation among the residents who have left a few hours after the start of the police operation.
Most withdrew in some compound of land plots which have legal housing, leaving police officers face on non-resident activists mounted scaffolding in protest.
"We are now in control of the site, a reduced tension and bailiffs are beginning to actively take steps to clear the site," police Superintendent Trevor Roe said in early afternoon.
Seven people were arrested for offences including disorders violent and breach of the peace, said Essex Police. Police used an electric pistol on one person, they said, change their earlier statement that two people had been slaughtered with truncheons.
Dale Farm has been at the Centre of controversy for years, with local authorities, insisting on the fact that residents - locally called Gypsies or "travellers" - leave because they have no permit to build permanent residences.
A Committee of fight against the discrimination of the UN last month urged the British authorities not to go forward with evictions planned as residents lose their case before the Court.
Police entered the settlement of the two sides, local authorities, said.
Officers on the scene saying that they were moving with caution because the main door was fortified.
But residents said police was smashing their way in with a mass of blacksmith.
Tony Ball, head of the Council of Basildon, said of the defenders of the colony fought the police of rocks, bricks and iron bars and torched the mobile home themselves.
"These are totally scandalous scenes and demonstrate the fact that some so-called supporters were still intent on violence," Ball said in a statement.
CNN could not confirm independent who started the violence.
A resident said the community was being "torn by Basildon Council and politicians in the Government."
"The memory of Dale farm will weigh heavily on Britain for future generations." We are dragged out of the only houses that we have in this world, "Kathleen McCarthy said in a statement.
Earlier, the Committee of the United Nations on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, expressed "deep regret" that the authorities planned to force residents to leave "identify and provide culturally appropriate accommodation.".
"Travellers and Gypsies already face considerable discrimination and hostility in society at large and the Committee is deeply concerned that this could be aggravated by the actions taken by the authorities in the current situation and some media reports on the issues," the Committee said in a September release.
CNN Stephanie Halasz and Nima Elbagir contributed to this story.