SNOW JOKE | Man (22) arrested over republican Christmas display of snowman pressing bomb trigger

A 22-year-old man has been arrested under the Terrorism Act by police investigating the circumstances of a window display in Derry.

The PSNI/RUC will arrest and charge you for putting the bottom one up and arrest and charge you taking the top one down but won't arrest the individuals from erecting the top one because they don't wish to interfere with loyalist paramilitary terrorism 

       Thursday 22nd December, 2022. 

He has been charged to appear at Bishop Street courthouse on Thursday morning.

Last month a Christmas themed window display appeared at the offices of dissident-linked group Saoradh. It showed a snowman pressing a bomb trigger.

The display was condemned by the DUP.

The image at Junior McDaid House is accompanied by the phrase “they haven’t gone away ye know” – referencing the well-known Provisional IRA phrase.

Two-tier politicial policing from the PSNI/RUC nothing has changed #DifferentNameSameAim

The display features the snowman in the image dressed in traditional republican attire and Father Christmas appears to be holding a walkie-talkie device.

Similarly controversial images have appeared at Junior McDaid House in the past including one of Father Christmas brandishing an AK47.

With many thanks to the: Sunday World and Garrett Hargan for the original story. 

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