Workers Party on violent events in Derry, Easter Sunday
"It started off with stones being thrown over the peace wall into the Protestant Fountain Estate. This sectarian attack was orchestrated to draw the Police to the area and then petrol bombs were thrown. ”
The violence that took place on Easter Sunday a shameful and deliberate act against the community. It started off with stones being thrown over the peace wall into the Protestant Fountain Estate. This sectarian attack was orchestrated to draw the Police to the area and then petrol bombs were thrown. There is sheltered housing just facing the Fountain Estate and the elderly residents are always those most impacted by the violence.
It is nothing short of scandalous that a 92-year-old veteran of the civil rights movement who lives there was the one willing to speak out. It was shameful listening to him describing the fear and worry that the elderly residents felt during this despicable episode. It is time for the whole City to tell the perpetrators of this ongoing violence to stop. “Enough is Enough” the violence must stop.
Our young people are being dragged back to the violence of the past and they deserve better than this. The City and its citizens, especially the elderly who have lived through the violence of the past, deserve to live in peace.