The Five Demands

Nei files rilasciati dal Public Record Office, la relazione sulla tentata evasione di Gerry Adams dal Maze nel 1974

E’ documentazione relativa a “fughe e tentativi di fughe dal carcere”, quella pubblicata dal Public Record Office e contiene la relazione completa della tentata evasione da Long Kesh del leader dello Sinn Fein il 26 luglio 1974.
“Il detenuto, Gerry Adams, ha tentato di fuggire passando con il suo visitatore”, recita laconicamente la trascrizione di un funzionario dell’epoca, e prosegue “entrambi i visitatori e il detenuto sono bloccati nelle celle. Altre visitatrici donne sono detenuti in attesa di indagini di polizia”.
Il tentativo di fuga andato a vuoto, costò a Gerry Adams una condanna a 18 mesi di carcere.

File on Adam’s 1974 escape bid (BBC News Northern Ireland)
Government classified files from 1980 released this week by the Public Record office in Belfast detail the attempt of the Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to escape from prison in the 1970s.
The file, dealing with “Escapes and attempted escapes from custody” by republican and loyalist prisoners in the 1970s includes an incident report dated 26 July 1974 on Mr Adams.
The republican leader had been arrested the previous summer at a Belfast house and was being interned without trial.
An official recorded tersely that “Gerry Adams, detainee, attempted to escape by switching with his visitor” at the Maze Prison, near Lisburn.
The report, penned immediately after the event, noted that “both visitor and detainee are locked in the cells. Other female visitors are being held pending police inquiries.”
For his escape attempt, Mr Adams was subsequently sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment.