A group called „New IRA“ has taken responsibility for the attack with a car bomb in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The crime has nothing to do with the Brexit, it says in a letter of confession.
„Our struggle continues“: The militant „New IRA“ group has announced in a letter to Derry Journal newspaper about the car bomb attack in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Nobody was injured in the explosion of the bomb in the center of the city on 20 January – probably because 15 minutes before the explosion, a warning had been received by the authorities and surrounding buildings evacuated.
In the letter of confession „New IRA“ Brexit is denied as motive. „All this talk about Brexit, hard limits, soft limits does not affect our actions, and the IRA will not go anywhere,“ they say.
During the investigation, five men were arrested last weekend, but four of them were later released.
Memories of the „Bloody Sunday“
The „New IRA“ had repeatedly carried out attacks sporadically in recent years. The Nationalists reject the so-called Good Friday Agreement, concluded in 1998, which to a large extent drew a line under three violent decades. It assures, among other things, a sharing of power between Protestants and Catholics.
The Londonderry attack earlier this year recalled that dark period during which the IRA conducted a guerilla war against the British state and Protestant paramilitaries. 3,500 people died in the conflict.
The city of Derry, which is called by the Protestants Londonderry, 1972 scene of the „Bloody Sunday“. At that time, British soldiers shot at unarmed participants in an unauthorized demonstration. 14 people were killed.
The IRA, which had for decades violently fought for a separation of Northern Ireland from Britain, swore the violence officially in 2005.
