CCTV Tracks Shell Station Bomb Suspect in Ireland
A TEENAGER arrested last week by gardai investigating a home made bomb planted outside Shell Ireland’s headquarters in Dublin was linked to the scene by closed circuit television cameras.
The CCTV images track a man allegedly resembling the youth from the vicinity of the oil company’s Leeson Street headquarters, across the city to his home in north Dublin.
Gardai believe the device was planted in September in protest at Shell Ireland’s controversial plans for bringing gas ashore on the North Mayo coast. The “bomb” was fashioned from an empty Cidona bottle filled with petrol, attached to a clock and a can of paint and left in a carrier bag outside Shell’s headquarters in September. It didn’t go off as it wasn’t rigged.
At the time, Shell Ireland described the planting of the device as a sinister development. Shell to Sea and local protest groups denied having anything to do with it. Detectives suspect that who ever planted the device was probably acting alone, according to a garda source.