Thursday, April 7, 2011

Arrested a man in Scotland for the death of a Catholic policeman in Northern Ireland

Republican dissidents killed on Saturday with a sticky bomb Ronan Kerr: a young Catholic police. On Wednesday his colleagues have discovered a weapons cache in a garage of Ulster and have arrested a man for the crime in the Scottish town of Renton. Across the Irish Sea. For now, only known to be a man of 26 years.

One more than the police killed. But analysts assume that it is a member of the terrorist groups that refuse to accept the peace process in Ulster. The place of detention is important. Not so much for the crime on Saturday as the proximity of the royal wedding, which remains in a state of alert Scotland Yard officers, fearful that the Republicans want to gain publicity for a terrorist act that takes advantage of the global dimension of the event.

For now, groups like the Real IRA or Continuity IRA activity had been recorded only in Ulster and the Republic of Ireland. But they have always wanted to move their campaign of intimidation on the streets of London. The arsenal found by police in a rural county in Northern Ireland. Very near where Wednesday's corpse was buried with his agent Kerr more intimate and political and religious representatives of the island.

Presided over the funeral, Cardinal Primate of Ireland, Sean Brady, Enda Kenny attended and Peter Robinson, the prime ministers of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Also representatives of Sinn Fein and other nationalist parties, who have condemned the attack no excuses and have presented it as an obstacle to peace in Ulster.

The arrest in Scotland is not the only progress in the investigation. The police found an arsenal in a garage in Northern Ireland. Among the seized weapons, detonators, incendiary devices, four Kalashnikov, a grenade launcher and several packages of explosives. According to experts, could be Semtex explosives, the IRA provided the substance that the Libyan regime in the mid 80's.

Ulster police said the weapons were hidden in stolen cars and the arsenal is one of the most important have been seized in recent decades. Ronan Kerr is not the first agent that violate Catholic against IRA dissidents. In March 2009 in Craigavon shot dead the officer Stephen Carroll and last year blew the legs with a sticky bomb one of their colleagues.

The strategy has an objective clear: to torpedo the career of the new Ulster police, founded from the peace process to establish a well respected by Catholics and Protestants. For years, the vast majority of agents were Protestant Ulster. Today a third of them are Catholic and the number is growing fueled by the scourge of the crisis: it is not easy to find a stable and well paid employment in Northern Ireland.

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