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Date Posted: Mon, Aug 17 2009, 10:38:55 PDT
Author: Lucy
Subject: Re: Derry businesses attacked
In reply to: Forum Admin. 's message, "Derry businesses attacked" on Sun, Aug 16 2009, 21:05:11 PDT

I notice the Unionist politicians are making no comment.
Is it they approve of this organised vandalism - or are afraid of losing votes?

>Garvagh.
>
>Police appealed for information and said they were
>studying
>CCTV footage from the village's Main Street in a bid to
>identify the attackers.
>
>SDLP East Londonderry MLA John Dallat blamed loyalists
>and
>said it was like a scene from Germany before World War
>Two
>when Jewish businesses were singled out for attack.
>
>Mr Dallat, visited the scene during the night, said:
>"This
>loyalist element has been systematically trashing the
>village for years. When I went to the village early
>this
>morning it was like a scene in Germany in the lead up
>to the
>Second World War when the business premises of Jews
>were
>systematically selected for smashing up."
>
>In the current economic climate all businesses in small
>rural towns and villages were finding it extremely
>difficult
>to pay their bills and survive, he said.
>
>"They don't need to be getting phone calls in the
>middle of
>the night to tell them to return to their premises as
>they
>have been smashed up."
>
>The MLA said just a month ago the a loyalist mob had
>painted
>new kerbstones and other property in Garvagh red,
>white and
>blue.
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