“I know who killed my mother but I can not say”, Michael McConville

As Gerry Adams is arrested by Belfast police for questioning his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Jean McConville in 1972, one of 10 children of 37 years widow explained this morning on the BBC Today program Radio 4 how he lived those moments. “I know who killed mother, but I can not say. I saw them on the street, but if I tell the police they will kill me or someone in my family. I’ve never spoken,”said Michael McConville, who was 11 when a dozen men and women entered his home to abudct his mother. The following week it also led to intimidate him and ensure the silence of the family.

The now president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, appeared voluntarily on Wednesday afternoon in a station of Police Service of Northern Ireland after the publication of several articles that indicated a deceased IRA member you involved in that crime had told an American university preparing a paper on the unrest in Northern Ireland. Adams spent the night in police custody. Before entering police station he denied any connection with the murder of McConville, the IRA did not recognize until 1999 and whose remains were not located until 2004, buried on a beach in the Republic of Ireland.

Jean McConville was born into a Protestant family in East Belfast but married a Catholic man who had served in the British army, with whom he had 10 children. At first they lived in a Protestant area but, harassed by neighbors, moved into a Catholic area in west Belfast. He died of cancer in 1971.

The young widow and her children had to move house after neighbors accused her of having helped a wounded British soldier. Six weeks later, in December 1972, she was beaten at the entrance of a bingo. The next night she was kidnapped from her home by IRA members who accused of passing information to the British secret services.

“My brothers and sisters and I were very anxious to see the men who had returned because my mother had left full of cuts and bruises with the beating they had given her,” recounted Michael on the BBC.

A week later, they also took him. ” They beat me with sticks on the legs and arms. They put a gun to my head and told me they were going to shoot. They said if someone said something about the IRA, they would return and shoot me or someone in my family, “he said. “I knew that my mother was dead two weeks later, when an IRA man came and dropped her purse and her wedding ring,” said Michael McConville.

“I never told anyone what I saw. I have not said yet. I have not told the police. If I now say to the police, they will shoot me or any member of my family or my children. People think that all this has vanished. But it is not, “he added. “From my point of view and that of my family, it’s terrible to know who did it and not being able to bring them to justice. I saw them on the street and when I saw them my blood boil. “

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