The Five Demands

(Update!) Colin Duffy, 41 anni, è comparso questa mattina davanti alla Larne Magistrates Court.
Un ispettore capo del PSNI ha dichiarato che il principale elemento di prova contro Duffy, è il DNA su un guanto di lattice scoperto nella Vauxhall Cavalier abbandonata vicino a Randalstown dopo l’attentato alla base armata di Massereene.
“Non si tratta di tracce – questo è un profilo completo del DNA,” ha detto il funzionario in tribunale.
Il capo ispettore poi ha ammesso che è stata trovata solo la punta del guanto.
Tre sono gli elementi in opposizione alla libertà provvisoria, ha dichiarato il capo ispettore: uno forense, i video delle telecamere a circuito chiuso e i testimoni.
Alto il livello di sicurezza al di fuori del tribunale e sulle strade in tutta la città.
Duffy è stato portato via ammanettato tra gli applausi dei suoi sostenitori tra cui la moglie e il fratello.
Parlando fuori tribunale, Paddy Vernon, difensore di Duffy, ha dichiarato che il suo cliente mantiene la linea dell’innocenza e che lunedì ricorreranno per ottenere la libertà su cauzione.
Breandán Mac Cionnaith, portavoce di Eirigi, ha espresso la sua preoccupazione per la salute di Colin Duffy, che sta proseguendo lo sciopero della fame. Paul Duffy, fratello dell’imputato, ha detto che il suo peso è diminuito da 77 kg a poco più di 69,5 nell’arco di poco tempo.
Colin Duffy il 21 aprile dovrà comparire davanti all’Antrim Magistrates Court.

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Scene di rabbia della gente, all’uscita di Duffy dal tribunale

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Man in court over soldier murders (BBC News)
Prominent dissident republican Colin Duffy has been charged with the murders of two soldiers outside a barracks in Antrim.
Duffy, 41, appeared at Larne Magistrates Court on Friday morning.
A PSNI chief inspector said the main evidence against the 41-year-old was DNA on a latex glove discovered in a Vauxhall Cavalier car.
“This is not trace elements – this is a full DNA profile,” the officer told the court.
“It was inside a latex glove found on the floor of the Vauxhall Cavalier.”
The chief inspector later conceded that only the tip of the glove had been found.
A Vauxhall Cavalier, believed to have been driven by the soldiers’ killers, was abandoned outside nearby Randalstown after the shootings.
Objecting to bail, the chief inspector said there were three main planks of the prosecution case – forensics, CCTV and witness evidence.
He said a witness could place the getaway car outside the barracks in the seconds before the attack.
Mr Duffy was remanded in custody until 21 April to appear at Antrim Magistrates Court.
In addition to the two murder charges, Mr Duffy was also charged with five counts of attempted murder and one of having a firearm and ammunition.
Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey, from London and Birmingham respectively, were shot collecting pizza at the Massereene barracks on 7 March.
On Thursday six suspects in the murders, including Mr Duffy, were released by the High Court after a legal challenge to their detention.
Mr Duffy was freed but re-arrested at Antrim police station a short time later.
The murder of the soldiers was followed by the killing of Constable Stephen Carroll in Craigavon two days later.
Two men, a 17-year-old youth and a former Sinn Féin councillor, 37-year-old Brendan McConville, have been remanded in custody charged with the murder of Constable Carroll.
A 21-year-old man has been remanded in custody accused of withholding information in relation to the policeman’s murder.
The dissident republican Real IRA shot Sappers Azimkar and Quinsey outside Massereene barracks, while the dissident republican Continuity IRA claimed the murder of Constable Carroll.
Four other people, including two pizza delivery men – Anthony Watson, 19, from Antrim and a Polish man in his 30s – were injured in the attack on the County Antrim barracks.
The two young soldiers were the first to be murdered in Northern Ireland in 12 years.

Colin Duffy in DNA link to soldiers’ killings, court told (Independent.ie)