A judge allows police to extend the detention of Adams

Police in Northern Ireland won court permission to continue questioning the president of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams, for another 48 hours in a police station Friday. The decision immediately sparked a fierce reaction number two Sinn Fein, Martin McGuinness, who accused the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to act against Adams for political reasons.

Prolongation of questioning may indicate that more material against Adams initially believed. The police could choose between leaving Adams on parole, release him without charges, accusing him of the murder of Jean McConville or, have finally done, ask the court to extend the remand in any event, shall not exceed 28 days.

McGuinness launched a harsh attack on the PSNI, significantly raising political tensions in Northern Ireland. He shared the views of the leader of the main unionist party, the DUP and First Minister, Peter Robinson, that if the police have evidence of a crime and does not act is that is making policy; and the statements of the British minister for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers, no one is above the law.

” I agree with the two statements, but the reality is very different,” he said. And cited several cases in which ensures that the police have enough evidence to investigate but is not doing, as the death of 14 people in Derry in 1972 at the hands of British paratroopers or death of another 11 in Ballymurphy in 1971. In other cases in which the British Government is committing “political interference ” paralyzing investigations.

McGuinness repeated his accusations yesterday that there are ” dark forces”, there is ” a clique in the PSNI having an agenda, a negative agenda and destructive both against the peace process as against Sinn Féin.”

David Ford, justice minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the neutral Alliance Party, which no identification nor unionist nor nationalist, came out in defense of the police. ” In four years I have been responsible for the police minister have not seen any evidence of acting with political criteria. What I have seen, of course, is a lot of evidence of politicians from all sides trying to interfere with policing “he said.

Gerry Adams is arrested since Wednesday night and has already spent two nights in police lock Antrim (30 miles northwest of Belfast). The leader of the Northern Irish Republicans volunteered for questioning for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder in December 1972 of Jean McConville, a widow of 37 years with 10 children to the IRA accused of collaborating with the British Army in one of the high points of the riots in Northern Ireland.

Adams was reported years ago that was the great friend and one of the commanders of the IRA in Belfast, Brendan Hughes. The two friends then distanced by their conflicting views of the peace process. Hughes said some scholars Adams Boston College ordered the disappearance of Jean McConville. His words, they had to be kept secret until his death, were made public in a book that appeared after Hughes died in 2008. IRA terrorist and another great friend of Hughes, Dolours Price, confirmed shortly before his death in 2013 that she worked to pass the border McConville Ireland, although there are conflicting reports about whether Adams also said to be responsible for that operation.

The arrest of Adams has emboldened the family of Jean McConville, who for 40 years has preferred to keep secret what they saw in the late December 1972. Though a son, Michael, said Thursday that knows who kidnapped and killed his mother but never tell for fear of reprisals, the older sister, Helen, has said that she does then is willing to talk. ” If fully cooperate about the murder of my mother’s name includes those who saw busting our floor, dragged my mother and took her at gunpoint and were directly involved in her disappearance and murder, then yes, I am willing to give names. for me it is not acting as an informant, but fulfill my obligations to my mother, “he said in The Guardian and the BBC.

Helen McKendry (her married name) said the family knows that the PSNI has at least 11 tapes with testimonials from former members of the IRA, part of the material of American academics who for years have recorded conversations with fighters in the disturbances in Ireland North who spoke with them on the condition that their conversations would not be made public until after his death.

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