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Gregory Campbell contro sito repubblicano su Facebook

Offensive ‘dissident’ website slammed

FacebookA DISSIDENT republican propaganda site on the internet has been condemned after posting vile sectarian acomments and a sick joke about the murder of prison officer David Black.

While the web page offers support to dissident republican activities, its bile is largely aimed at the community in which it operates. The website, to be found on Facebook, is used to promote dissident republican literature and viewpoints and to launch vicious verbal broadsides at Sinn Fein.

The site also contains a host of malicious, personal attacks against victims of dissident republican violence, their families and friends.

While the identity of the site operator is anonymous, prominent dissident republicans have often posted replies to some of the comments.

But a new low was reached this week when, on the eve of the funeral in Cookstown of Mr Black, who was gunned down on the M1 as he made his way to work at Maghaberry prison, the website posted an offensive joke about his death.

The dissident republican site also referred to the Black family’s request for Sinn Fein members to stay away from Tuesday’s funeral, adding: “Now McGuinness will tell all who will listen to him how Catholics and Protestants walk around hand in hand blowing bubbles when the dogs in the streets know the real truth. Orange Order loyalist vermin RUC/PSNI and Sinn Fein treating Catholics/ nationalists as second class.”

Gregory Campbell said the website showed up the mentality of the dissidents trying to wreck the peace process.

He said: “There was fairly widespread and comprehensive revulsion from every section of society at the murder of David Black, and there was nobody who even attempted to publicly defend it or excuse it. When people would have witnessed the scenes at the funeral everyone would have shared in some degree in their grief.

“Then we get a person or a group who, despite all that, appear to be glorying in the killing in a cold-blooded sectarian way.”

Mr Campbell said this behaviour and mentality, despite being the mindset of a very small group, underscores the distance that Northern Ireland has yet to travel in the political process.

He himself was last year the subject of a hate-filled rant on a facebook site, which resulted in a man being prosecuted.

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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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