Real IRA claim Creggan shooting

Real IRA claim Creggan shooting


Published Date: 08 June 2008

By Staff reporter

The Real IRA have claimed responsibility for the shooting of a 25-year-old man in Creggan on Thursday night and said that they intended to 'execute' him.

The man was shot in Lislane Drive (below) shortly after 8.30pm when a white van pulled up alongside the red Ford car the man was sitting in. A number of masked men got out of the van and one of them fired a shot through the driver side window of the man’s car, hitting him in the right thigh just above the knee.

The 25 year-old managed to get out of the car and run into a nearby bungalow which belongs to a 70 year-old woman. The gunmen followed him into the house and confronted him in the hallway where another shot was fired. The attackers then left the house and escaped in the white van in the direction of Rinmore Drive.

In a statement to the Sunday Journal the republican group alleged their victim was a ‘prominent drug dealer’ and stated ‘volunteers had been instructed to execute the man in question.’

They claimed that due to the presence of a female passenger in his car ‘he avoided certain death’.

They also issued a warning to the man that he had ‘48 hours to get out of the city’ or else ‘volunteers will be instructed to shoot this man dead on sight.’

The dissident group continued with a lethal warning to others they described as ‘prominent drug dealers’, they said: “Oglaigh na h-Eireann is in possession of a list of other known drug dealers who operate in Derry, these people are advised to contact the Republican Movement immediately or face a similar fate.”

The statement concluded: “We call on the nationalist community not to be taken in by politicians who call on collaboration with crown forces. We are stern in our intention to wipe out drug networks in this city. Anyone caught supplying information to the crown forces will be treated as informers.”


http://www.sundayjournal.ie/news/Real-IRA-claim-Creggan-shooting.4163408.jp