Roslea 32CSM Condemn PSNI Search of Two Children on St Patricks day
PSNI Search Two Schoolchildren
The Vol Jimmy Connolly Cumann Roslea 32 County Sovereignty Movement (32csm) condemns in the strongest terms the searching of two young school children by the PSNI on St Patricks day. The search took place in the village when families were out enjoying the parade unawares that two young children, a 15yr old and the other only 13, were being subjected to a search by members of the PSNI.
A parent of one of the young boys contacted members of the local 32csm cumann in Roslea who said he was deeply traumatised by the search and scared to go outside after it happened. When the parents asked their children why did the police search them the two young boys said that the police said we ‘looked suspicious’. "Within the last month, the RUC/PSNI are upping the ante with regards to the targeting and deliberate harassment of individuals unconnected to the movement in the Roslea area.
The PSNI/RUC have changed tact and now regularly target family, children and friends of members of the 32csm. The 32csm condemn the recent upsurge in RUC/PSNI activity against the nationalist community in Roslea and across the occupied area. " It is blatantly obvious that someone at the top of the British security establishment has passed down the diktat for the RUC/PSNI to take the gloves off and to intensify their vigorous campaign of intimidation and harassment against nationalists and republicans and their families.”
Republicans are being stopped and searched on sight by the RUC/PSNI in the north and in many cases being followed around towns and cities in a blatant fashion. It is quite normal for republicans to see heavily armed police in armoured cars cruising slowly past their homes numerous times per day or setting up checkpoints near the homes of republicans.
Republicans must view this as a sign of a defeat in the ranks of the RUC/PSNI: the RUC was supposed to have disappeared and the PSNI was to be the new 'peacetime' police service but due to the growing support for the republican position in defence of Irish national sovereignty the PSNI have been forced to publicly admit that this transition cannot take place.
The police service is exposed as a military police force and the PSNI mask has slipped to very publicly reveal the un-rehabilitated RUC. These attempts at crushing the republican position through intimidation will not deter republicans, if anything they only serve to strengthen the resolve of the republican family.
