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Poster UVF contro Raymond McCord Senior

UVF behind poster campaign – McCord

POSTERS attacking Raymond McCord Snr are an attempt to divert attention from his son’s murder, the victims’ campaigner has said.

Raymond McCord SeniorThe billboards first appeared in loyalist parts of Belfast in the early hours of Sunday morning, with reports of hooded men erecting them on the Shankill Road.

But later they had spread to other parts of the city, including the Dublin Road and Ormeau Road.

Mr McCord Snr, whose son, also called Raymond, was murdered in 1997, blamed the UVF for the attempt to “blacken my name”.

The posters call for Baroness Nuala O’Loan — who is overseeing the police investigation into the murder of Raymond McCord Jnr and other UVF crimes in north Belfast — to question Mr McCord Snr about his son’s alleged activities prior to his death.

Featuring a picture of Mr McCord Snr and Baroness O’Loan, the poster says that Mr McCord Snr should be asked if his son was involved in crime.

In response, Mr McCord Snr — who has long blamed the UVF for the death of his son — alleged the posters were part of a UVF campaign to lower his character.

“It’s just another stage of the UVF trying to silence me and blacken my name,” he said.

“They’ve tried everything from death threats to people trying to come and beat me up.

“They’ve resorted to something they’ve never done in 40 years against republicans, a poster campaign. It’s like kids at school telling the teacher.”

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Mr McCord Snr added that it was telling that several vital questions were missing from the posters.

“There’s one thing missing on the posters the UVF put up.

“Who murdered Raymond McCord Jnr? We all know who it was so why’s that question not on the poster? We’re not telling lies that my son Raymond junior is no longer with us, that he was murdered and in a grave, so who put him there?”

Mr McCord Snr said that the poster campaign would backfire: “I want to thank them for keeping Raymond’s name in the public eye, I’ve nothing to be frightened of, I don’t kill people like them.”

Following the murder of Raymond McCord Jnr in 1997, Baroness O’Loan investigated allegations of collusion between the police and loyalist paramilitaries.

PUP member Ken Wilkinson contacted the News Letter about the posters, but said he did not exactly know who had erected them but believed that “people who are angry about the ongoing situation with the Historical Enquiries Team and the inequality against loyalism” had put up the posters.

He claimed that there were “double standards” being used by the PSNI and HET in investigating loyalist and republican paramilitaries.

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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