Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-09-Speech-1-069"
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"en.20050509.14.1-069"2
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"Mr President, Sinn Féin supports the McCartney family’s demand for those responsible for Robert’s murder to face trial and will continue to do all that it can to help them. I welcome them here today.
Our party has met with the McCartney family a number of times. I met them a few weeks ago when they visited Parliament in Brussels. I have pledged them my support and the support of our party. Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has called on those responsible to come forward and admit their responsibility for this horrendous murder. They have refused. He has also called on everyone who was in the vicinity of Magennis’s Bar to provide full and frank statements.
Because we take this matter so seriously, eleven members of our party who were in the bar on that night and one who arrived on the scene later were suspended without prejudice. This has been done to establish whether they complied with the call by party leaders for everyone to provide a full and frank statement. Two members were expelled for refusing to follow this instruction; four others resigned; the other six remain suspended pending a report to our party’s national executive.
As a Sinn Féin MEP and as an individual, I could not campaign for the victims of British or Unionist paramilitary thuggery if I was not as clear and as committed to justice for the McCartney family. Those responsible for the brutal killing of Robert McCartney should admit to what they did in a court of law. That is the only decent thing for them to do. Others who have any information should come forward. It is our belief that the PSNI
the Police Service of Northern Ireland
could and should have acted by now. It has not carried out a thorough investigation."@en1
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