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04/04/2013
PSNI 'Inaction' Endangers Residents - SF
Sinn Féin's Sean Lynch has said the lives of residents in Fermanagh are being endangered by militants and PSNI "inaction".
The comments come as police confirm a security alert in the village of Donagh, County Fermanagh, was a "deliberate hoax".
Roads have now been reopened following an examination by army bomb experts.
But Mr Lynch has claimed both the PSNI and those who left the device "appear to have a total disregard for the safety of local people in Fermanagh".
The Fermanagh/South Tyrone MLA said: "Local people's lives are being put at risk both by those that left this device and by the inaction of the PSNI.
"I understand the PSNI's need to be cautious when approaching such reports, but to allow people just to travel past the suspect device is irresponsible.
"The PSNI have a duty to protect the public and their failure in this incident to observe that does not instil confidence in the local population."
Mr Lynch continued: "Whoever is leaving these devices, whether real or hoaxes need to wise up. They obviously haven't got the courage to tell the people why they are doing it and how it is going to advance a united Ireland in 2013.
"The people of Ireland have moved on and this is not 1969, 1980 or the 1990s. Militarism for the sake of militarism was never part of republicanism but clearly these people believe that it is. They are deluded, self-serving and need to wise up."
(IT/CD)
The comments come as police confirm a security alert in the village of Donagh, County Fermanagh, was a "deliberate hoax".
Roads have now been reopened following an examination by army bomb experts.
But Mr Lynch has claimed both the PSNI and those who left the device "appear to have a total disregard for the safety of local people in Fermanagh".
The Fermanagh/South Tyrone MLA said: "Local people's lives are being put at risk both by those that left this device and by the inaction of the PSNI.
"I understand the PSNI's need to be cautious when approaching such reports, but to allow people just to travel past the suspect device is irresponsible.
"The PSNI have a duty to protect the public and their failure in this incident to observe that does not instil confidence in the local population."
Mr Lynch continued: "Whoever is leaving these devices, whether real or hoaxes need to wise up. They obviously haven't got the courage to tell the people why they are doing it and how it is going to advance a united Ireland in 2013.
"The people of Ireland have moved on and this is not 1969, 1980 or the 1990s. Militarism for the sake of militarism was never part of republicanism but clearly these people believe that it is. They are deluded, self-serving and need to wise up."
(IT/CD)
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