17/01/2013

Garda Launch Investigation Into Threat Video

A video in which a group of armed and masked men threaten violence against named individuals is under investigation by the gardai.

During the two minute video, thought to have been made at a premises in north Dublin, the masked men issue threats of using pipe bombs to blow up women and children.

One man in the video is seen holding a sawn-off shotgun, whiles others are pictured with handguns.

The video goes on to make threats of murder against named families.

The five men in the video are believed to part of a Traveller gang and garda suspect they may have been involved in the shooting of an innocent man in Dublin last week.

An investigation is underway.

(H)


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