Murders in Spain, and a Dublin attack with AK-47s: the deadly 20-year war of Ireland’s drug cartels
"Wearing nothing more than a pair of royal blue Superman Y-fronts, Irish boxing contender Jamie Kavanagh was flexing his muscles for the cameras on stage in preparation for the weigh-in when automatic gunfire echoed around the main hall of Dublin’s Regency Hotel.
Dozens of people attending Friday’s pre-bout ritual for yesterday’s subsequently aborted WBO fight for the European lightweight title fled for their lives. Young boys were caught on a live television feed screaming for their fathers as the shots rang out. As the camera that had been trained on the fighters moved around the room a panic broke out, and the audio captured the sound of a child calling: 'Daddy, Daddy help me! What happened, Daddy?”
We were watching news about the shooting on Sky News. Betsy said, “It’s dangerous there.”
Except:
“But until Friday’s killing in the Regency Hotel, the most significant murder in this turf war had been that of 34-year-old Gary Hutch. The gangster was gunned down beside the swimming pool at an apartment complex in Angel de Miraflores near Marbella on the Costa del Sol in September last year.”
MORE AT:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/07/dublin-drugs-shooting-spain-gang-warfare
That’s one, ONE gangland killing per year in the entire country of Ireland POP 4,848,876.
We have more gangland shootings in Coatesville per year pop. 13,000.
Coatesville police investigate shooting
"COATESVILLE — City police are seeking information about a shooting Monday that left one man in intensive care at a local hospital.
According to police, they were called to the 600 block of Victory Drive, the Regency Park Apartments, with a report of a shooting. There they found a 25 year old man, Jamil Battle, who was shot once in the lower back, Battle was transported to Paoli Hospital, where he underwent surgery and was in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
Anyone with information — or potential witnesses — is asked to contact the police department."
We talked to a lot of people in Regency Park during voter registration drives. One teenager said he identified with a character on “The Wire”. He seemed to be a player. We registered a number of obvious “players”. Could have met this guy.
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