A cafe owner claims police offered him financial benefits and to turn a “blind eye” to certain low-level offences if he informed on Palestine Action . Shams (his nickname) Sadiq, who owns two Manchester cafes, said the inducements were offered when he went to collect electronic devices that police had confiscated during his arrest last year in connection with alleged offences relating to the banned direct action group . Sadiq, 51, from Didsbury, said that when he attended Ashton-under-Lyne police station on 15 May, two officers he believes were from Operation Wildflower – a response by Greater Manchester police (GMP) and others to the war on Gaza – asked to speak to him “man to man”. The officers told him that having checked his devices, they knew he was “fully involved” with Palestine Action but that they would not be charging him in relation to last year’s arrest, Sadiq said. “They said to me: ‘We need your help. Look, there’s benefits in helping us,’” he told the Guardian.…