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02/08/2013
DUP Councillor Arrested Over 'Massacre' Comments
DUP Councillor Ruth Paterson is being held over comments she made that appear to endorse a paramilitary style attack on a proposed civilian parade through Castlederg on 11 August.
The march is in memory of Seamus Harvey and Gerard McGlynn: two IRA men who were killed 40 years ago when a bomb they were carrying accidentally exploded.
Unionists have appealed to the Parades Commission to ban the march; however the Commission does not possess the powers to undertake such a decision.
Ms Patterson made headlines yesterday when she responded to a post made by a loyalist Facebook user that advocated an attack on the parade. The post imagined the attack would use "rocket launchers, handguns and grenades" and would kill a number of Sinn Féin politicians, including deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, Mid Ulster MP Francie Molloy and Northern Ireland MEP Martina Anderson.
In her response, Ms Patterson is reported to have written: "who cares how we would be judged, we would have done a great service to Northern Ireland and the world by getting rid of these evil, devious scum like individuals who bombed and murdered their way into government."
(IT/MH)
The march is in memory of Seamus Harvey and Gerard McGlynn: two IRA men who were killed 40 years ago when a bomb they were carrying accidentally exploded.
Unionists have appealed to the Parades Commission to ban the march; however the Commission does not possess the powers to undertake such a decision.
Ms Patterson made headlines yesterday when she responded to a post made by a loyalist Facebook user that advocated an attack on the parade. The post imagined the attack would use "rocket launchers, handguns and grenades" and would kill a number of Sinn Féin politicians, including deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, Mid Ulster MP Francie Molloy and Northern Ireland MEP Martina Anderson.
In her response, Ms Patterson is reported to have written: "who cares how we would be judged, we would have done a great service to Northern Ireland and the world by getting rid of these evil, devious scum like individuals who bombed and murdered their way into government."
(IT/MH)
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