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anuary 9, 2003
(10:03)
The Army has responded to claims by a town cleaner in Wexford that they did nothing to help him when he was attacked by two youths on New Year’s Eve.
In an interview on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland today, 54-year-old Larry Flood alleged that a group of soldiers and gardaí who were on bank escort duty nearby failed to intervene while he was being kicked and punched.
A spokesman for the Defence Forces said that individual armed soldiers involved in security operations did not have the discretion to intervene in incidents.
But he said that like any other citizen, if the soldiers involved did witness the assault, they should have informed the gardaí.
J
anuary 9, 2003
(10:03)
The Army has responded to claims by a town cleaner in Wexford that they did nothing to help him when he was attacked by two youths on New Year’s Eve.
In an interview on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland today, 54-year-old Larry Flood alleged that a group of soldiers and gardaí who were on bank escort duty nearby failed to intervene while he was being kicked and punched.
A spokesman for the Defence Forces said that individual armed soldiers involved in security operations did not have the discretion to intervene in incidents.
But he said that like any other citizen, if the soldiers involved did witness the assault, they should have informed the gardaí.
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