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Man released without charge after arrest in fake documents raid

Gardaí working with London’s Met Police had searched a number of properties in Dublin yesterday.

A MAN WHO was arrested yesterday in relation to fake documents seized during garda searches has been released without charge.

The man in his 40s, who is believed to be from north Africa, was arrested yesterday and detained in a north city garda station under legislation which covers terrorism offences.

Gardaí from the Special Detective Unit working with London’s Met Police had searched a number of properties in Dublin as part of an ongoing operation targeting possession of fraudulent documents.

Today they said the man in his 40s was released from garda custody last night. A file will now be prepared for the information of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Aug 9th 2017, 12:35 PM

    A suspected Algerian ISIS member being released back into the community. Fantastic!

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    Mute John Dman
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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:12 PM

    @Beachmaster: don’t worry! The guards took he’s passport!

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    Mute The Throwaway
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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:20 PM

    @Beachmaster: Maybe they’ve changed the article but I don’t see it anywhere written that yer man was an ISIS member. Are you reading terrorism legislation as equaling ISIS? Cause that’s a bit of a leap, what with any number of terrorist groups on the African continent & Ireland. When you work with international partners on legal matters, you have to make sure that the offence which is been investigated in the foreign country is also an offence in this country. Terrorism legislation usually covers those caveats, where as of wouldn’t get the same like for like coverage with something like road traffic acts (eg if a person was to fraudulently copy a car tax disc you’d find yourself stumped as they don’t have a tax disc in the U.K.)

    But like I said, maybe they changed the article.

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    Mute Matt Connolly
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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:30 PM

    @Beachmaster: Suspect.

    You want internment?

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:34 PM

    @Matt Connolly: Deportation will do.

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    Mute Matt Connolly
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    Aug 9th 2017, 4:16 PM

    @Beachmaster: what – anyone with brown skin?

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    Mute Peter Kelly
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    Aug 9th 2017, 5:47 PM

    @John Dman: which one?

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    Mute Matt Connolly
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    Aug 9th 2017, 6:16 PM

    @Frank Cooney: so you’re stating deportation should be based on skin colour and due process is only for indigenous Irish?

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Aug 9th 2017, 7:22 PM

    @Matt Connolly: A lousy attempt to try and turn this into a race issue. e.g. if an ISIS suspect was from the Caucasus region I would have no problem with them being deported.
    Not all Muslims and not all Islamic extremists are ‘brown’. Sit down and educate yourself.

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    Aug 9th 2017, 8:35 PM

    @Matt Connolly: Internment was only ever used on Irish people in Ireland now we have gotten rid of them and they have been replaced with sharia loving terrorists. We got rid of the tight grip of the christian church on Ireland and now Islam is tightening its grip on us, when The IRA were a big problem we could hardly travel between here and Britain, now you can run between any country you want to regardless of where you are from.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 2:25 AM

    @Frank Cooney:
    And the fact that Matt assumes that a suspected terrorist must be ‘brown’ actually makes him quite the little racist himself.

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    Aug 9th 2017, 12:35 PM

    Released without charge. Not like would be a flight risk or anything!!!

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    Mute billy Dorney
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    Aug 9th 2017, 12:39 PM

    Forget the file going away,lock this guy up, pending removal/custody

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    Mute Liam flag
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    Aug 9th 2017, 12:36 PM

    Deport him and everyone linked to the documents immediately. Learn from the mistakes of other countries for the sake of the Irish people. We cannot tolerate the insanity this cult brings with it wherever it goes. We all know what will happen. People will be murdered in the streets. Wake up ffs

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    Aug 9th 2017, 12:47 PM

    @Liam flag: deport him fat chance this guy will turn out to be a poor persecuted gay Christian and our taxes will pay for his many many appeals before he is finally let stay and bring his family over

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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:06 PM

    @Frank Cooney: One wife is plenty enough, these guys have to be commended for putting up with multiple of them!

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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:18 PM

    @johnp: It would not surprise me to learn that he may claim to be the exact type of person whom he is trying to recruit and facilitate the murder of and they’ll probably believe him! How disconnected are politicians and the media from reality? EVERYONE KNOWS what is going on. It’s unbelievable to witness.

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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:42 PM

    @Liam flag: Politicians and media know exactly whats going on. All part of the plan..

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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:54 PM

    @Mark Mcloughlin: They should be charged with treason and subversion in that case. This all feels like a precursor to a civil war in Europe.

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    Mute David Conroy
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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:23 PM

    No need to worry, the Gardai took all his passports, what could possibly go wrong ?

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    Aug 9th 2017, 2:36 PM

    Obviously he is “greatly enhancing our culture” let’s bring more in

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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:24 PM

    Knowing this country they will probably let him slip through the cracks and he’ll abscond.

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    Aug 9th 2017, 2:50 PM

    Does anyone NOT get released without charge in Ireland? Just plain crazy.

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    Aug 9th 2017, 4:00 PM

    JHC Absolute bloody madness

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    Aug 9th 2017, 11:35 PM

    The journal have a great way of wording their headlines, “released without charge” to garner outrage and then in the actual article they add on “pending a file to DPP”

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    Aug 9th 2017, 1:08 PM

    Released?? To go where? Deport the fuc@er!

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    Aug 10th 2017, 1:44 AM

    They’ll be after me next with my peppa pig garda id

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