DISORDINI A LURGAN, INTERROTTA LA LINEA FERROVIARIA BELFAST-DUBLINO
Disagi ai collegamenti tra le città di Belfast e Dublino in seguito ai riots proseguiti anche la notte scorsa
Il PSNI ha dichiarato che la scorsa notte alcuni veicoli sono stati dirottati e dati alle fiamme sui binari della linea ferroviaria che collega Belfast a Dublino, collegamento prontamente interrotto a causa di disordini ‘civili’. Improntato un collegamento il servizio bus, tra Newry e Belfast.
Pervenute alle forze dell’ordine informazioni in merito alla presenza di uomini armati e mascherati per le strade nell’area di Lurgan e Craigavon. E’ emerso che ai riots abbiano partecipato circa una trentina di giovani.
Gli automobilisti e i pedoni sono stati avvertiti di mantenersi a distanza dalla zona di Lake Street.
La due giorni di riots ha avuto inizio subito dopo la condanna di tre giovani, presumibilmente membri del Continuity IRA, avvenuta lo scorso giovedì. L’ispettore capo del PSNI Jason Murphy ha affermato: “Cerchiamo di fare chiarezza su da quale parte si trovi la colpa. Si trova con coloro che sono scesi in strada, che hanno dirottato le automobili ed hanno contribuito ad orchestrare queste violenze, ottenendo nulla se non la paura e una frattura all’interno della propria comunità”.
NI trouble disrupts train service (The Irish News)
Train services between Dublin and Belfast have been disrupted following disturbances in Lurgan and Craigavon last night.
Police said that a number of vehicles had been hijacked and attempts were made by masked youths to set them on fire on the Dublin-Belfast railway line.
Motorists and pedestrians were warned by police to keep out of the Lake Street area and Northern Ireland Railways stopped Belfast to Dublin trains because of what it called “civil disturbances”.
Police said they had received reports of armed and masked men on the streets.
The trouble in the town followed violence which started on Thursday night after the jailing of three local dissident republicans for plotting to kill police officers.
During the first night of trouble more than five vehicles were hijacked and set on fire and police said they received numerous reports of armed men on the streets in what they said was clearly pre-planned and orchestrated violence.
The violence follows the sentencing of three men who were jailed for 15 years for possession of a live mortar bomb, complete with launching tube, which was found near the Cornakinnegar Road on April 5 2007.
Damien McKenna, 26, of Deans Walk, Gary Toman, 24, of Drumnahoe Avenue, and Seán McConville, 23, of Kilwilkie Road, all in Lurgan, pleaded guilty. Police said they believed the men were members of the Continuity IRA.
Condemning the violent reaction to the jailings, Chief Inspector Jason Murphy said earlier today: “Let’s be clear where the blame lies here. It lies with those who took to the streets, hijacked cars and helped orchestrate this violence, causing nothing but fear and disruption within their own community.
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