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Sinn Fein offices petrol bombed | Sinn Fein offices petrol bombed |
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Petrol bombs have been thrown at a Sinn Fein office in Londonderry. | Petrol bombs have been thrown at a Sinn Fein office in Londonderry. |
Three devices were thrown at the premises in the Rath Mor centre in Creggan around midnight, breaking a window and causing minor smoke damage. | Three devices were thrown at the premises in the Rath Mor centre in Creggan around midnight, breaking a window and causing minor smoke damage. |
Police have appealed for anyone who saw suspicious activity in the area to contact them. | Police have appealed for anyone who saw suspicious activity in the area to contact them. |
Sinn Fein assembly member Martina Anderson said "an anti-community element" was most likely to blame for the attack. | |
It came as three Sinn Fein councillors observed a District Policing Partnership meeting in the city. | |
Dissident republicans have been blamed for previous attacks on DPP members in Derry, but Ms Anderson said she had not encountered opposition to Sinn Fein's support of policing. | |
"We have carried out five public meetings across the city over the last two weeks, and anti-community violence was at the top of every agenda," she said. | |
"Not one person had anything other than endorsement of Sinn Fein's (policing) strategy. | |
"If it were, such an attack could only be viewed as a product of political and strategic bankruptcy. I think the activities of groups like that would in no shape or fashion advance the cause of Irish reunification." |
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