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N Ireland’s Sinn Fein Reports Explosives Thrown at Former Leader’s Home

© AFP 2023 / LEON NEALRepublican party Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams addresses journalists as he attends the final televised debate in Dublin. (File)
Republican party Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams addresses journalists as he attends the final televised debate in Dublin. (File) - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - An explosive device was thrown overnight at the Belfast home of Gerry Adams, the former leader of the Irish republican Sinn Fein party, it said Saturday.

Sinn Fein’s policing and justice spokesman Gerry Kelly in the statement slammed the attack a cowardly act, adding another explosive was hurled at the home of Irish pro-independence activist Bobby Storey.

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"These were reprehensible and cowardly attacks on the family homes of Gerry Adams and Bobby Storey. Grandchildren were in the driveway of Adams' home minutes before the attack," he said.

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He added the assaults were "desperate acts of increasingly desperate and irrelevant groups." Adams, a lawmaker in the Republic of Ireland, tweeted that all was well and no one had been hurt.

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