Gardai Search farmland along Fermanagh/Monaghan border

Gardai/ERU Search farmland along Fermanagh/Monaghan border


The 32 County Sovereignty Movement condemns the Gardai and the ERU, Emergency Response Unit, for a recent search operation it carried out on farmland in the townland of Drumully on the Fermanagh/Monaghan border last week.


The owner of the land that was being searched contacted a member of the 32csm in Fermanagh to say that he confronted heavily armed men on his land last week who said they were from the Gardai.


The man, who does not wish to be named, is a local farmer, said that he was awakened in the early hours of the morning last week by his dogs barking. As the man went outside to check he saw a large amount of men with guns out on his land and in his outbuildings.


Shocked at these events that where unfolding before him the man then cautiously approached these armed men to see what they were doing on his land as he confronted them they stated that they were Gardai and produced badges of identification to the man and said that they were carrying out a routine search.


When asked by the farmer what they were searching for they said "it’s in relation to terrorist activity in the area".


The search went on for a number of hours and nothing was found.


There were no Garda vehicles present during the search. When the search was over unmarked vehicles with Southern registrations and blackened out windows removed the armed party from the scene and sped in the direction of Clones.


The 32csm in Fermanagh condemns this invasive and intimidating activity by the Gardai. We ask people who may notice suspicious activity or have been the focus of other unknown Gardai/ERU searches in the area to come forward to the 32csm in Fermanagh so as to expose this blatant harassment of vulnerable people.