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Willie Frazer: “PSNI tenta di demonizzare Ulster People Forum”

Statement from Willie Frazer

Willie FrazerI’m just after being released from the PSNI custody suite after being arrested at the behest of republicans.

Now some people still don’t believe how far the police here have been infiltrated in this country but I’ve been saying it this last while and what happened last night proves it again. I was up at a meeting in Tyrone discussing the People’s Forum and the protests in that area, a very good meeting I might add.

When I left I drove down to Coalisland to check out some of the diesel operations, to see if they’re still in business, and sure enough there was a reception committee waiting – they must have been tipped off. There was a tractor blocking the road and when I slowed down behind it two cars came up fast behind and tried to hem me in. Then two fellas jumped down off the tractor with hurley sticks and started hammering at the windows and shouting sectarian abuse. I could see another four or five on the road behind me so I just put the car into reverse and drove at them. Then I wheeled her up onto the verge and around the tractor with these rats heading for the ditch. I got a good look at the two boys with the hurls who tried to pull me from the car – sure enough they were well-known faces from the East Tyrone brigade.

About a mile or two down the road I was pulled over by the PSNI patrol flashing their lights. They said they were stopping me for dangerous driving and they got me out of the car and started searching it and emptying out the papers do with FAIR and the victims and the Peoples Forum. When I asked them what they were playing that they threw me across the bonnet and said they arresting me under the terrorism act. Now the one who actually told me that had a southern accent – Dundalk or Castleblayney, Crossmaglen direction.

Anyway they got me to the station they took all my stuff off me and they put me in a cell and kept me there for three hours without offering me so much as a drop to drink. Eventually two detectives came and brought me up to the custody suite. Now, the only thing these boys were interested in talking about was the Peoples Forum – who the leaders are and what the strategy is. I couldn’t believe my own ears. The PSNI are actually now saying that it’s a breach of the terrorism act to go out and defend the flag of our own country by peaceful protesting – the same flag that so many RUC officers gave their lives for! Those men would be turning in their graves if they’d been in that room with me, I can tell you.

What it looks like now is they’ve taken a decision to demonise the Peoples Forum or at least some of the leaders, the one’s who can’t be bought, to label them as terrorists. Meanwhile there hasn’t been one single arrest over the murder of the guard who was shot in Dundalk the other week, even though the car was found burnt out in south Armagh.

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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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