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Date Posted: Sun, Aug 16 2009, 21:05:11 PDT
Author: Forum Admin.
Subject: Derry businesses attacked

CATHOLIC BUSINESSES ATTACKED IN DERRY 08/16/09 13:36 EST

Several Catholic-owned businesses in a County Derry village
were damaged in early morning attacks this morning which
police said were being treated as sectarian hate crimes.

More than 20 windows in a public house, butchers' shop and
cafe were smashed some time around 3am local time in 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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Re: Derry businesses attacked -- Lucy, Mon, Aug 17 2009, 10:38:55 PDT