IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

The ransom gang that wasn't

Socialist Challenge No. 131, 24 January 1980 · pp. 11-12 of the scan · 203 words

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manager's wife and their two daughters.

member Committee and of Republican Socialist Party. POLICE in the South of Ireland have now released all 31 people arrested on 10 January on suspicion of being involved in the kidnapping of a Dublin bank Among those arrested was Martin MacGhoill, a of the recently formed Smash H-Block the Irish revolutionary organisation Peoples Democracy. The majority of those held were members or sympathisers of the Irish The arrests took place in a blaze of publicity which strongly linked those held with the kidnapping — which secured a ransom of £30,000. But it is now clear police vehicle to follow.

Commenting on the arrest of their political harassment, trying to build support for campaign of the H-Block prisoners.' that the irish police used the kidnapping to stage a series of raids on political opponents of the Southern Irish government. The real kidnappers escaped when a motorcycle carrying the ransom drove through a laneway too narrow for a disguised four-wheeled member, Peoples Democracy said: "The only motive was find particularly disgraceful that the police force of this state spend so much time attempting to intimidate those who are the political status

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