CIRA death threat to Martin McGuinness.
DEPUTY First Minister Martin McGuinness has stepped up his personal security tonight after police warned him of a dissident republican threat to kill him in a “rocket attack”.
Martin McGuinness said officers told him that the threat came from a group calling itself the Continuity IRA (CIRA).
“I have been made aware the PSNI has discovered a plan to launch a rocket attack against me,” the Sinn Féin MLA said.
He said he would not be “silenced or deterred” by threats to his life.
“The PSNI has said that a group calling itself ‘CIRA’ considered an attack against me using a rocket launcher,” Mr McGuinness said in a statement.
“If those behind this threat think they have ability to destroy the peace agreements which have been endorsed by the overwhelming majority of the people of Ireland then they are clearly detached from reality,” he added.
It is not the first time the Sinn Fein MLA has been warned by police about his personal safety.
The Real IRA in the city threatened to shoot him dead after he condemned the terrorists over the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll.
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