A 44-year-old man was charged in Northern Ireland with attempted murder of a police officer on Friday, police said, plunging the tense country back into crisis.
Last February, two men fired multiple shots at 26-year veteran police officer John Caldwell, leaving him with serious injuries that required him to recover for two months.
The attack claimed…
A 44-year-old man was charged in Northern Ireland with attempted murder of a police officer on Friday, police said, plunging the tense country back into crisis.
Last February, two men fired multiple shots at 26-year veteran police officer John Caldwell, leaving him with serious injuries that required him to recover for two months.
The attack, claimed by the anti-establishment republican group New IRA, occurred as Ms Caldwell and her son loaded soccer balls into a car at a sports complex in Omagh, about 115 kilometers west of Belfast.
The shootings were a major blow to politics in a state sensitive to renewed communal violence since a 1998 agreement between nationalist and pro-British groups that ended most of the decades of violence seen in Northern Ireland. He was criticized beyond his point of view.
Police said in a statement that the man arrested on Thursday was charged on Friday with attempted murder, directing a terrorist act and preparing a terrorist act.
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He is due to be taken to the Magistrates Court on Saturday.
More than a dozen people have been arrested and charged in connection with the attempted murder.
“Such attacks by enemies of peace in our country are completely unacceptable,” the state’s five political parties said in a joint statement.
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