“Sinister and Brutal Attack”. Man Found With Hands Nailed To Fence In Cloudy Ireland

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) announced that the man had “potentially life-changing but non-life-threatening” injuries. The injured man, including in the nose, was transported to the hospital in a fire truck.

Also in the public car park near Dundarave Park, two vans were set on fire, including one belonging to the injured man.

“It was a sinister and brutal attack. We live in a democratic society where there is no justification for such a thing. Those responsible brutalize their own communities and control others through intimidation and violence,” said Detective Inspector John Lyttle.

Deputy Chief Constable Bobby Singleton says it was a “shocking incident with ultra-violent levels. I thought these kinds of incidents were clearly in our past.”

UDA, a paramilitary group, suspected of the attack

“This incident bears all the hallmarks of what we would see as paramilitary type attacks, so that will be a key line of inquiry,” he added.

Inquest sources say the Ulster Defense Association (UDA) has previously issued threats.

The UDA is a paramilitary group formed in September 1971. Its stated aim was to defend loyalist Protestant areas in Ulster and “to combat Irish republicanism, particularly the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)”.

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