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'Secret Gardai Target 'Shell to Sea' Protesters'

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Sunday February 25, 2007 15:49author by J. P. Anderson - Privateauthor email greagues2 at yahoo dot co dot uk Report this post to the editors

Bellinaboy under Garda siege

A Secret Special Garda Unit has been established to target Bellinaboy community and 'Shell to Sea' protesters.
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Shell To Sea Protesters ‘Targeted’
By Secret Special Branch Unit
By J. P. Anderson

Top level Garda sources, believe that a ‘special and secret unit has been established within the Garda Special Branch with ’top level directions’ to especially target members of the Shell to Sea protest group. This fact has been borne out by the Garda tactics employed against the peaceful protesters, including the filming of individual protesters, supporters and even elected representatives by Gardai, dressed in regular uniform but actually attached to the special ‘Shell Unit’. The filming is done by a Garda with a ‘small hand held digital camera held only a matter of a couple of feet away from the face of protesters and supporters present at ‘Shell to Sea’ rallies and meetings.

Many of the regular protesters and supporters involved in the ‘Shell to Sea’ protest, including members of the ‘Rossport Five’ who have led the protest from the start and were imprisoned for their opposition to Shell and the rest of the consortium, involving three multinational companies, Statoil and Marathon, formed to exploit the ’Corrib natural gas field off the County Mayo coast in the west of Ireland, have noted the presence of the same ‘Garda faces’ at different protest meetings in widely different parts of the country......


.....full story at: http://uk.360.yahoo.com/greagues2

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