Ligoniel grenade attack: RUC quizzed about car
Residents of the isolated nationalist estate of Ligoniel on the
outskirts of North Belfast are demanding that the RUC explain the
presence of one of their vehicles in the area immediately after a
grenade attack on the home of a Catholic woman on Sunday night, 25
April, at 11.40pm.
Local people who were at the scene of the attack, which was claimed
by the Orange Volunteers, saw a green Mondeo, with two men on board
and its lights off, drive up along the country-bound mountain road
that the bombers took as they escaped from the area.
``Fifteen minutes later the same car, with two occupants, arrived at
the scene of the attack and we confronted the RUC,'' said one witness.
``They admitted the car was one of theirs - a supervisor's car - but
said it hadn't been out until it was sent to the scene of the
attack.''
He added: ``We're sure it was the same car; the registration letters
of both cars were VAZ and although we didn't get the numbers I think
it is too much of a coincidence.''
The Catholic woman whose Mill Avenue home was attacked was too
frightened to be identified when she talked to An Phoblacht about the
incident the following day. The woman who was in the house with her
young son when the no warning bomb exploded, initially thought the
bomb had been aimed at the front of the house.
A grenade-type device exploded on a porch roof at the back of the
house, ripping tiles off the porch but fortunately causing no other
damage or injury to any of the occupants.
Still clearly nervous about the incident, the woman said that she had
no idea why she should be targeted and pointed out that the grenade
went off just feet below a bedroom window: ``It could have gone off
anywhere,'' she said.
Calling on nationalists to be vigilant, Sinn Féin Councillor Mick
Conlon warned that ``known loyalists had been seen cruising the area''.
Conlon also demanded that the RUC come clean about the presence of
the green Mondeo.
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