Real IRA threatens to kill police
A dissident republican group today threatened to kill police officers and opposed the Queen’s first visit to Ireland.
In a statement, a masked member of the Real IRA told a crowd in a Derry cemetery: “The Queen of England is wanted for war crimes in Ireland and not wanted on Irish soil.”
He added that the police were “as liable for execution as anyone regardless of their religion, cultural background or motivation”.
The rally was reported to have been organised by the 32 County Sovereignty Movement to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
The statement read: “Despite the best efforts of the media, big business and other power blocks to portray this visit as acceptable, we clearly state that the Irish people will not capitulate.
“The Queen of England is wanted for war crimes in Ireland and not wanted on Irish soil.
“We will do our best to ensure she and the gombeen class that act as her cheerleaders get that message.”
Northern Ireland has been on a high state of alert in recent days.
Catholic Constable Ronan Kerr died earlier this month when a dissident republican booby trap bomb exploded under his car in Omagh, Co Tyrone.
In the statement the Real IRA said police officers would be targeted “regardless of their religion, cultural background or motivation”.
“Oglaigh na hEireann (the IRA) call on any young nationalist who may have been sold the lie that the RUC/PSNI is somehow an reformed, non-political police service to think again, those who think they are serving their community are in fact serving the occupation and will be treated as such,” it said.
“The GAA, Catholic church and constitutional nationalism will be unable to protect those who turn traitor, they are as liable for execution as anyone else regardless of their religion, cultural background or motivation.”
