Hussey condemns ‘fascists’ behind Strabane cemetery mortar device

West Tyrone Ulster Unionist MLA Ross Hussey has condemned the people who left a mortar type device in a Strabane graveyard, as fascists.   

 

Mr Hussey, who is his Party’s representative on the Policing Board, said:

 

"Once again the good people of Strabane have had their lives placed in danger and their daily routines disrupted by what can only be described as fascists.

 

“I would like to commend the bravery and diligence shown by the security forces as they sought to locate the device and move people away from the Townsend Street and Cemetery Road area to places of safety,

 

“There is very little I can say about the mentality of people who would use the sanctity of a graveyard to attempt to murder police officers.

 

“No doubt the people responsible would claim to be republicans fighting to ‘liberate' Ireland. In reality they are a criminal gang of bully boys and fascists whose only achievement this weekend was to force local people, some in their eighties, to leave their homes in the middle of the night and seek refuge in church halls or with friends and relatives

 

“These so-called dissidents are simply despicable and the entire community must provide the Police with unequivocal support so they can remove them from our midst and place them behind bars where they belong.”      

 

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