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POLICE IN NORTHERN Ireland are appealing for information following two incidents in the Waterside area of Derry during the early hours of this morning.
Shortly after 1.35am it was reported that what is believed to have been a pipe bomb type device had exploded outside a house in the Lapwing Way area.
Attack
Four adults and one child who were in the house at the time but no one was injured. No damage was caused to the property in the attack.
At approximately the same time, another pipe bomb type device also exploded outside a house in the Lincoln Court area.
Damage was caused to the front door of the property. Four adults who were in the house at the time of the attack bu again, no one was injured.
Hate crimes
Police are linking these incidents and are treating them as hate crimes.
Remains of the devices have been taken away for forensic examination.
Police would appeal to anyone with any information about the incidents or anyone who saw anything out of the ordinary in the area of Lapwing Way or Lincoln Court late last night or early this morning to contact CID at Strand Road Police Station on 0845 600 8000.
Or, if someone would prefer to provide information without giving their details they can contact the Independent charity Crimestoppers and speak to them anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Would I be right in saying that Waterside and Lincoln Court are loyalist areas? Strange to address the possibility of a hate attack, without mentioning the group targeted.
Doesn’t matter where it happened. It’s wrong no matter what your colour or creed.
Of course, but it at least warrants a mention. In cases of other hate crimes, the identity of the targeted group is discussed freely.
Hate crimes against the Nationalist community are trumpeted. Hate crimes against the Loyalist community are treated with indifference or veiled justification for times past.
Waterside is the east bank of the Foyle. You’d be right in saying that Clooney and Lincoln court were predominantly loyalist areas. Theres republican areas in the waterside too.
Reported Romanian families were living there (rte)
Of course it was a hate crime; people don’t plant bombs on other people’s doorsteps because they like them..
I ran a marathon in Derry last June, I love this city and thank you to the owners of
house on waterside for letting me take a pee at 16 miles
Loyalists don’t like Romanian or Polish families integrating into “their” areas.
Roland, and Nationalists don’t like anyone else even walking through “their” areas.
Bombs are bad.
They don’t have a problem with anyone “walking” through their area Bernard. It’s the drunken behaviour, sectarian abuse, sectarian songs, urinating on churches etc that they have a problem with. And until this behaviour stops, they are dead right to object to these marches.
Sound like a Celtic supporters club post match! So Roland. Loyalists don’t like Nationalists in “their” areas. Nationalists don’t like Loyalists in “their” areas. Nobody likes Romanians in any areas.
Trying to blow up a family home? They sound nice
Loyalists. Not a great bunch of lads. Just a racist rabble. Now immigrants are seeing what nationalists have had to put up with for generations. I’m sure the irony is lost in these loyalist fools that they too are descended from immigrants.
The same could be said of Nationalists Roland. I don’t think any one sub-section of the Northern Irish community has a monopoly of racism or bigotry. But I’m sure the irony is lost on you.
It takes a special kinda idiot to put a pipe bomb outside a familys front door…
An awful pity it didnt explode as it was being made,transported
or as it was being planted…
During the week in the loyalist village of Tobermore in Co.Derry, the local state run primary school received a bullet in the post. Why you may well ask…? Well apparently a Polish child attends the school ( a state school but all the children coming from exclusively Protestant backgrounds) whose parents made the big mistake of sending a sibling to a Catholic secondary school.
Welcome Arkanas 1957.
These racists are stuck in a time warp of sectarian hatred. They cannot readjust to the fact that they no longer get a job because they are Protestant. That they no longer get a house because they are Protestant. That they can no longer have their marches of hate through areas where these marches aren’t wanted. They now live in a country of equals. And it’s killing them!!
loyalist/unionist/prods don’t tolerate ANYONE outside their own LUP type people…….see what the rest of us are up against…….
Vicious lies
Republicans are so inclusive… Yawn
Tinman/Kenneth/Jeremy, Irish people are inclusive. We love our loyalist brothers even though they don’t reciprocate. We even gave them a colour in our flag. They say Republicans liaised with Nazis 70 years ago? Well it’s loyalists who are BEHAVING like Nazis today, painting hate logos on the doors of immigrant people’s houses and attacking them and their homes. They need to stop acting like fascists and embrace their Irishness.
Hate crimes? Not love crimes then.
Stay classy Londonderry
I love Derry. It’s a classy place. A city of culture. L’Derry on the other hand…..x
Nice photo.
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