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BBCOne of the older residents of an elderly house in Londnderry described the attacks of the gasoline bomb against the police outside the house on Monday as “very distressing.”
Eamon Melaugh, 92, said the riots “do nothing.”
One of the gasoline pumps exploded outside the protected accommodation at the crossing of Bishop Street and Nailors Row, near the city walls.
The riot team police were using the area as a point of view to monitor a dissident republican parade, directed by around 50 people with paramilitary style uniforms, from Cregan to the swamp.
Melaugh, a veteran civil rights activist in Derry, told BBC News or: “I would condemn all violence. I have done my whole life. He does nothing.”
He appealed to young people to stop and reflect on the impact that their actions were having on the community.
DUP deputy Gregory Campbell said that major residents of Alexander House feel that they are “under siege” every time there are problems close.
“They feel terrified because there are people out that they throw gasoline bombs into police vehicles and police officers and cause some kind of chaos when we are supposed to celebrate a Christian Easter commemoration,” he said.
“However, older people take advantage of young children and put them in the front line.
Campbell also criticized the paragraph commission for allowing the parade of the republican, which has been tarnished by violence in the past.
“What were they thinking or?”
“What were they thinking, giving permission for a parade that has a history of violence?”
He mentioned that six years ago Lyra McKee was killed in the duration of Easter time, a “dissident event.”
“Every year, almost, it seems that they last the parade or after it, there are gasoline bombs launched to property, police or civilians.
“However, they give permission to this parade and stipulate that they should not go to paramilitary clothes when they knew that there would be paramilitary clothes and saw it.
“That is a very serious question for the parades commission,” he added.
The appearance of people in paramilitary style uniform was violated by a decision of the commission.
In a statement, the parades commission said it did not have the legal power to prohibit the parades and considered all the information available, including that provided by the Police.
The commission said he imposed a series of conditions in the parade.
He also pointed out that there was a historical leg “serious criminal crime associated with the parade” and urged the organizers and participants to do everything possible to seek recurrence.
Campbell also questioned the police and what advice he gave to the parades commission.
“Surely, the lessons have to learn. If they remain learned before yesterday, they now have to be in Lear.”
The PSNI said that the parades commission is “independent in its decision -making and that the Northern Ireland police service is obliged to maintain its determinations.”
Campbell said the police tactics to fall behind and monitor the parade should be followed by additional trial.
Two men, 30 and 55, were arrested under the terrorism law and remain in policy custody.
