The Five Demands

E’ stato di allerta a Kilkeel. Artificieri all’opera

Case evacuate in in Fearon Close, area interdetta al traffico, perquisizioni in corso.
E’ un rituale che si ripete ormai ogni giorno in più punti dell’Irlanda del Nord, segno di un deciso riacutizzarsi dell’attività dissidente.
Dopo il falso allarme che questa mattina ha scosso nuovamente Derry, un ordigno sospetto è stato rinvenuto quest’oggi a Kilkeel (Co. Down) nei pressi dell’abitazione di un poliziotto cattolico.
Margaret Ritchie, SDLP, ha riportato la testimonianza di alcuni residenti secondo al quale il dispositivo sarebbe caduto dall’auto di un agente donna della PSNI.
“Non vi sia alcun dubbio sul fatto che noi e tutto il popolo del Kilkeel stiamo dalla parte di questo ufficiale e contro coloro che vorrebbero portare la distruzione e la morte in questa comunità pacifica”, ha dichiarato la Ritchie assicurando ogni sforzo per portare i responsabili dinnanzi alla giustizia.

Alert at Catholic police officer’s home in Kilkeel (BBC News Northern Ireland)
Army bomb experts are examining a suspicious object found near the home of a Catholic police officer in Kilkeel, County Down.
Homes were evacuated in Fearon Close, off the Scrogg Road, while searches were carried out.
Motorists have been advised to avoid the area.
SDLP MP Margaret Ritchie said local residents told her a device may have fallen from a car belonging to a female police officer.
“Let there be no doubt whatsoever that we and all the people of Kilkeel stand with this officer and against those who would bring destruction and murder into this peaceful community,” she said.
“Everyone in Kilkeel will be disgusted by this attack and everyone will want to see those responsible brought to justice as soon as possible.”
On Tuesday a car bomb exploded outside Strand Road police station in Londonderry.
No-one was injured in the attack which happened at 0320 BST, but several businesses were badly damaged.
A day later an organisation calling itself Oglaigh na hEireann claimed it was behind the attack.
‘Irrational and evil’
It is thought that dissidents were also behind a failed attack to murder an army major in a booby trap car bomb attack in Bangor on Wednesday.
He had been taking his car out of the driveway when he heard something fall off the underside of the vehicle and saw a bomb lying in the road.
Police said the army major was “very lucky” to have escaped serious injury or death.
Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson described the actions of dissident republicans as “irrational and evil”.