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Belfast Telegraph Home > News

Paisley bids to calm feud riots

By Jonathan McCambridge, Crime Correspondent
jmccambridge@belfasttelegraph.co.uk

06 August 2005

DUP leader Ian Paisley has met with police chiefs in north Belfast in a bid to calm tensions following loyalist rioting which left 36 officers hurt.

During the disturbances on the city's Crumlin Road on Thursday night police came under sustained attack after they carried out a number of searches linked to loyalist feud activity.

The feud between the UVF and LVF has already resulted in three deaths.

Dr Paisley met acting Assistant Chief Constable for the Urban Area ,Wesley Wilson, and spoke of his shock at that police had come under attack from blast and petrol bombs.

He said: " Those involved need to realise that it is their own community that they are harming by their actions.

"They are doing damage to properties and disrupting the lives of people within their own area.

"I call upon those involved to step back and ensure that there are no repeats."

There had been suggestions that this week's violence had been sparked by police heavy-handedness while they made arrests on Thursday.

The DUP leader said: "If people in north Belfast have genuine grievances against the police, then I and my party colleagues in the constituency are more than happy to take up their cases but there can never be any excuse for attacking the police in this way."

The funeral took place yesterday of the third feud victim Stephen Paul - gunned down last week by UVF gunmen.

The UVF has also been blamed for orchestrating the riot.

Sinn Fein councillor Margaret McClenaghan said there were concerns in the nationalist Ardoyne area about the loyalist tensions.

"People in Ardoyne are concerned about the potential for attacks on nationalist homes.

"I would urge politicians to begin to give leadership and ensure that this trouble ends before it spreads to other interface communities."

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