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24/07/2008
Dissidents' Chilling Threat To NI Civil Servants
Republican paramilitaries have threatened to target Northern Ireland customs officials and Driver and Vehicle Agency staff for working with the police service.
The warning was issued after civil servants aided the PSNI in county Fermanagh.
Head of the Government Department concerned, NI Minister Sammy Wilson, has condemned the threat on what he called, "ordinary people".
The Environment Minister said: "I wish to condemn in the strongest possible terms the threat to DVA Staff issued by the South Fermanagh Command of the Continuity IRA."
A statement, threatening to 'label' the civilian workers 'legitimate targets', was read by a masked man at the unveiling of a monument last Saturday near the Fermanagh border, at Mullan, county Cavan.
Mr Wilson said: "DVA staff are actively involved in road safety and work with both the PSNI and Garda.
"Given our current road safety record and the high percentage of the goods and bus fleet operating with serious defects I would have thought that staff would have been actively supported rather than targeted.
"This threat is simply an attack on Road Safety and DVA staff who are ordinary people going about their work and it therefore puts the whole community at risk," added the Minister.
One of the masked men is understood to have read a statement claiming to represent the South Fermanagh Command of the Continuity IRA, the same organisation behind recent attacks on off-duty PSNI officers.
The statement reportedly read: "It has come to our attention that in recent weeks Customs and Excise and the DVLA (the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) have been collaborating with the RUC in the County Fermanagh area.
"We order them to desist immediately or we will be forced to label them legitimate targets."
(PR)
The warning was issued after civil servants aided the PSNI in county Fermanagh.
Head of the Government Department concerned, NI Minister Sammy Wilson, has condemned the threat on what he called, "ordinary people".
The Environment Minister said: "I wish to condemn in the strongest possible terms the threat to DVA Staff issued by the South Fermanagh Command of the Continuity IRA."
A statement, threatening to 'label' the civilian workers 'legitimate targets', was read by a masked man at the unveiling of a monument last Saturday near the Fermanagh border, at Mullan, county Cavan.
Mr Wilson said: "DVA staff are actively involved in road safety and work with both the PSNI and Garda.
"Given our current road safety record and the high percentage of the goods and bus fleet operating with serious defects I would have thought that staff would have been actively supported rather than targeted.
"This threat is simply an attack on Road Safety and DVA staff who are ordinary people going about their work and it therefore puts the whole community at risk," added the Minister.
One of the masked men is understood to have read a statement claiming to represent the South Fermanagh Command of the Continuity IRA, the same organisation behind recent attacks on off-duty PSNI officers.
The statement reportedly read: "It has come to our attention that in recent weeks Customs and Excise and the DVLA (the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) have been collaborating with the RUC in the County Fermanagh area.
"We order them to desist immediately or we will be forced to label them legitimate targets."
(PR)
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