Loyalist paramilitaries suspected as hoax device disrupts Irish minister’s Belfast speech
by Lisa O'Carroll in Belfast from World news | The Guardian on (#5XGEM)
Simon Coveney evacuated after device driven to peace and reconciliation event venue in hijacked van
The attempted attack on the Irish foreign minister, Simon Coveney, in Belfast was a hoax, possibly carried out by the loyalist paramilitary group, the UVF, the police have said.
It halted a peace and reconciliation event in north Belfast, forcing Coveney to leave the stage and interrupting a funeral in a church in the same grounds as the venue.
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