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Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams continues to face probe on Thursday by Northern Ireland police over 1972 Irish Republican Army (IRA) killing of a Belfast mother Jean McConville.
Mr Adams, 65, one of the key figures in the republican movement, has repeatedly denied having any part in the killing of the 37-year-old widow, who was last seen in December 1972, before 12 masked men and women believed to be a special unit of the Provisional IRA, burst into the home of Mrs McConville in west Belfast and kidnapped her in front of her 10 children.
The incident is regarded as one of the most high-profile unsolved murders of the ruthless era of sectarian strife known as the Troubles.
The Sinn Féin leader has even denied being ever a member of the IRA and voluntarily presented himself for a meeting with the NI police to discuss the case on Wednesday.
Michael McConville, the son of victim has told on Thursday: “They pulled our mother out of our arms. All my brothers and sisters were holding on to my mother, crying and squealing.”
However, despite recognising the unit Michael has refused to identify the men who dragged his screaming mother from her home more than 40 years ago due to the fear of being killed over the information.
Michael has told: “Everybody thinks that the IRA has gone away but they have not. If we tell we will be shot.”
Meanwhile, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has blamed the “dark side” of policing for detaining his party’s leader during the election campaign and insisted Mr Adams could have been quizzed without any arrest.
Mr McGuiness has also stated that former Republicans and those who were “maliciously and vehemently” hostile to the police process were targeting the Sinn Fein leader to damage their credibility.
While, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted there has been no political interference in Mr Adams’ arrest, as he has said: “We have an independent judicial system both here in England and Northern Ireland and there’s been absolutely no political interference in this issue.”
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