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Date Posted: 13:19:56 06/07/02 Fri
Author: tra ghearr
Subject: BIFHE Loyalist Gang terrorises students

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_2031000/2031475.stm

BBC TV.

7th June 2002.

A further education college in east Belfast has closed for the day after masked men terrorised students.
Police are investigating reports of an assault at the Belfast Institute in Tower Street on Friday.

Students said a number of masked men entered the college and attempted to identify students from the Short Strand area where sectarian clashes with loyalists have taken place over the past week.





I am horrified by the continuing levels of violence in east Belfast and I have taken this decision on security advice

Jane Kennedy Security minister

A representative of the teachers' union, NASUWT, described the incident as an "appalling development".

"There is no justification anywhere for this form of thuggery, and particularly in a school or college," said Tom McKee.

"All law-abiding people must stand firm against this form of anarchy."

Earlier, loyalist protesters blocked the lower Newtownards Road following trouble between opposing factions outside a GP surgery.

Both sides blamed each other for the trouble outside the surgery which is used by people from both communities.

On Thursday, new security measures were announced by Northern Ireland Security Minister Jane Kennedy after a week of disturbances in which several people were injured by gunfire fired across so-called peace lines.

Ms Kennedy said the Army would put up a screen on top of the existing peace wall between Cluan Place and Clandeboye Gardens.

A further screen is to be erected in Bryson Street.

Ms Kennedy said military personnel would commence work as soon as possible.

It is believed the screens could be in place in the next few days.

Pensioners attacked

"I am horrified by the continuing levels of violence in east Belfast and I have taken this decision on security advice," she said.

"I would much preferred not to have had to take this decision but it reflects the serious situation on the ground over the past number of days and weeks."

Meanwhile, police are investigating an attack on the homes of Protestant pensioners in the Crumlin Road area of north Belfast.

Local people said a group of men arrived in Cambrai Street and threw bricks, breaking windows in two houses just before 0300 BST on Friday.


Colin Cramphorn: Briefed policing board on the violence in east Belfast


There was a similar attack on the same houses last September.

Acting Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn described the recent violence in east Belfast as the "worst in years".


Speaking at a public meeting of the policing board on Thursday, he said 28 officers had been injured over the past month, one of them with a gunshot wound.

Mr Cramphorn said 40 shots were fired by both sides during the same period and six civilians had been shot.

Forty shots were fired while pipe and petrol bombs were also thrown.


Mr Cramphorn said training was under way in the use of two water cannon borrowed from Belgium, but that it would be almost a year before the PSNI would have their own vehicles.

A series of meetings have been held with the northern Ireland Secretary John Reid loyalists and republicans in an attempt to end the rioting in east Belfast.

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