Un soldato ed il fattorino sopravvissuti all’attacco della Real IRA a Massereene Barracks nel 2009 hanno testimoniato in aula
Ha illustrato come i soldati ordinarono le pizze e uscirono dalla caserma per ritirarle, aggiungendo di aver parlato al fattorino prima di sentire delle grida.
Patrick Azimkar era alla sua snistra, mentre Mark Quinsey si trovava dietro di loro. Poi ha sentito qualcuno gridare “State giù”.
Ha aggiunto; “Quando è avvenuto, Pat (Azimkar) è caduto sopra di me – sono finito a terra e ho strisciato attorno all’autovettura”.
Fitzpatrick ha detto di aver cercato riparo dai proiettili nascondendosi dietro alla vettura dei fattorini e di aver visto Azimkar giacere a terra.
“Quando mi ha visto nell’auto, ha aperto il fuoco”, ha proseguito. “Era un fuoco costante, probabilmente durato 10 o 15 secondi”.
In precedenza era stato riportato in aula che 63 bossoli di proiettile e due munizioni inesplose erano state trovate sulla scena.
Mentre Fitzpatrick racconta di aver visto solo un uomo armato, dal filmato delle telecamere a circuito chiuso mostrato lunedì si potevano contare due uomini a volto coperto.
“Chiunque fosse voleva provocare danni”, ha testimoniato Fitzpatrick. “Non c’era alcun rimors. Sapeva cosa stava facendo – e voleva solo farlo alla svelta”.
Fitzpatrick è rimasto ferito ad una mano ed alla spalla, mentre un proiettile gli ha perforato un polmone.
I genieri Patrick Azimkar e Mark Quinsey morirono davanti alla caserma.
I loro parenti erano visibilmente colpiti da quanto sentito in aula.
Nel banco degli imputati, Colin Duffy e Brian Shivers non hanno mostrato alcuna emozione.
Mercin Wietrzynski, il fattorino di origine polacca, ha raccontato quanto ha visto la sera dell’attacco.
Tramite un interprete, ha descritto di essersi trovato a terra dolorante e ha realizzato di essere stato ferito.
“Mi hano colpito alle mani e alla schiena”, ha ricordato. “Mi sono rotto le gambe, tutte le gambe erano ferite”.
Colin Duffy, di Lurgan, e Brian Shivers, di Magherafelt, respingono le accuse di omicidio e gli altri capi di imputazione per tentato omicidio.
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Massereene killer showed no remorse
A soldier and pizza delivery man who both survived the Real IRA gun attack at Massereene barracks in Antrim in 2009 have given evidence about the fatal shooting.
He described how the Royal Engineer sappers had ordered pizza and then gone outside to collect it, recalling that he had spoken to the delivery man before he heard screaming.
Mr Fitzpatrick said that one of the victims, Patrick Azimkar, had been to his left and the second, Mark Quinsey, had been behind them. Then he heard someone say “Get down.”
He added: “As that happened, Pat (Azimkar) fell on top of me – I hit the floor and crawled round the car.”
Mr Fitzpatrick told the court how he tried to shield himself from the hail of bullets by getting into the pizza delivery man’s car and that he saw Mr Azimkar lying on the ground.
“When he saw me in the car, he opened fire,” he said. “It was an automatic, probably about 10 to 15 seconds of constant fire.”
Earlier, the trial heard that 63 spent ammunition cartridges and two live ones were found at the scene.
While Mr Fitzpatrick said he only saw one gunman, the court was shown CCTV footage on Monday which showed two masked attackers.
“Whoever it was wanted to cause damage and they finished him off before firing in at me,” Mr Fitzpatrick said. “There was no remorse. He knew what he was doing – he just seemed to do it all quick.”
Mr Fitzpatrick suffered gunshot wounds to his hand and shoulder, with one bullet puncturing his lung.
Sappers Azimkar, 21, from London, and Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, both died at the scene of the ambush.
Their relatives were visibly upset as details were recounted to the silent courtroom – on Monday, both grieving mothers had left the room as the CCTV footage was shown.
In the dock, Duffy and Shivers showed no emotion.
Polish pizza delivery man Mercin Wietrzynski was the first civilian to tell the court what he saw on the night of the shooting.
Through an interpreter, he described waking up in pain on the ground and realising he had been shot.
“I got hit in my hands and my back,” he said. “I had my legs broken, generally my whole legs were wounded.”
Duffy, aged 43 and from Forest Glade in Lurgan, and 46-year-old Shivers, from Sperrin Mews in Magherafelt, deny the murder charges and six further counts of attempted murder.