Spotlight on Republican Group RAAD (Documentary)
Spotlight On Republican Group RAAD (Documentary) – The group behind a bomb attack on a police vehicle in derry this month has told the bbc it will carry out further such attacks derry-based republican action against drugs (RAAD) told the programme that it had the same capability as the IRA before its ceasefire. RAAD leaders gave the bbc their first face-to-face interview as part of a report on their vigilante activities since 2008 the armed group has murdered one man and shot more than 40 others they have persuaded some parents to hand over their children – some as young as 18 – to be shot by appointment in a non-lethal way to spare them more serious injuries, and dozens more young people have been ordered to leave the city. The police admit they have failed to stop the group, which is made up of former members of the Provisional IRA, and are promising to redouble their efforts RAAD operates in the derry nationalist areas of creggan and bogside, which during the conflict were the centre of IRA activity in the old walled city. The group was set up to tackle drug dealers in the area and its leaders are well known locally, Two of the group’s leaders agreed to meet the bbc and answer questions on their activities. In the interview, they claimed that they were taking up arms to protect their community from “parasites”.they said that they never shot anyone with a drug addiction, only those who sold drugs to children or vulnerable people”. Earlier this month, during a protest about policing, RAAD threw a bomb at a police vehicle …
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