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Parla il poliziotto che ha evacuato i clienti del negozio di kebab andato completamente distrutto

E’ egli stesso fortunato per essere ancora vivo.
Adrian Simpson, l’ufficiale di polizia incaricato dello sgombero dell’area soggetta all’allarme bomba, può essere considerato l’angelo custode dei 3 clienti che fino a 2 minuti prima della deflagrazione si trovavano presso il negozio di kebab gestito da Logfi Jalloul, situato a 2 passi dal taxi che da lì a poco sarebbe esploso.
“Credo che l’istinto umano ti spinga a fare quello che devi fare”, ha dichiarato alla BBC.
“Sono sicuro che sia stato traumatico per loro vedere un ufficiale di polizia irrompere nel locale attraverso la porta in quel momento della notte e gridare a gran voce che era necessario andarsene immediatamente”.
L’agente Simpson ha detto che  solo grazie alle telecamere a circuito chiuso all’esterno della stazione di polizia, si erano accorti delle tre persone all’interno del negozio.
“Erano circa a 15 piedi da dove il taxi si era fermato.
“Queste tre persone erano completamente ignare del pericolo in cui si trovavano
“Quello che sapevamo era c’era una bomba all’esterno della stazione, che avrebbe potuto esplodere in qualsiasi momento, e quelle persone ne erano completamente all’oscuro”, ha aggiunto.
“Devo considerarmi fortunato – se le cose fossero andate diversamente, quella gente sarebbe morta”, ha concluso Adrian Simpson.

Bomb policeman acted on instinct (BBC News Northern Ireland)
The police officer in charge of evacuating the area around Strand Road police station in Londonderry during Tuesday’s bomb attack said he is lucky to be alive.
Duty Sergeant Adrian Simpson alerted people who were standing in a fast food shop within a few feet of the car containing the device.
“I think human instinct makes you do what you have to do,” he said.
He risked his own life by walking past the bomb to bring people to safety.
“I’m sure it was frightening for people to have a police officer bursting in through the door at that time of the night and shouting very loudly that they needed to leave immediately.”
Mr Simpson said security cameras monitoring the area outside the station showed that there were three people in a nearby kebab shop.
“They were about 15ft from where the taxi had stopped.
“Those three people were completely unaware of the danger they were in.
“What we knew was there was a bomb outside the station which could go off at any time, and those people were completely unaware,” he added.
“I have to consider myself lucky – if things had gone differently, people would have been killed.”
Two hundred pounds of homemade explosives were used in the car bomb attack.
No-one was injured in the attack which happened at 0320 BST, but several businesses were badly damaged.
An organisation calling itself Oglaigh na hEireann has claimed it was behind the bomb attack.
In a statement, the organisation also said it had attempted to bomb the police barracks on the previous day.
It said that attack had not gone ahead after two taxi drivers “refused to cooperate with instructions”.
PSNI divisional commander Steve Martin said it was fortunate no-one was killed because the device went off more than 20 minutes before a warning said it would