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Adams, 6 others face no charges over 1972 IRA killing Germany lowers
housing standards
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams speaks in Dungannon, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland prose- file to prosecutors. on migrant crisis
cutors on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015 said Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams and six other suspected
IRA veterans will face no charges over the outlawed group’s 1972 abduction, slaying and secret Northern Ireland’s deputy FRANK JORDANS
burial of a Belfast mother of 10. Associated Press
director of public prosecu- BERLIN (AP) — Refugees
(AP Photo/Peter Morrison) tions, Pamela Atchison, an- coming to Germany can
nounced that Adams and expect a roof over their
S. POGATCHNIK slaying and secret burial nville, a 38-year-old wid- six others arrested in the head, a bed to sleep in
McConville probe would and three meals a day. But
Associated Press of a Belfast homemaker, owed mother of 10 whom face no charges. Atchison with authorities struggling
said evidence was “insuffi- to find housing for tens of
DUBLIN (AP) — Sinn Fein Northern Ireland prosecu- the Irish Republican Army cient to provide a reason- thousands of people each
able prospect of obtaining month, many new arriv-
party leader Gerry Adams tors announced Tuesday. believed was a British in- a conviction against any als will find their lodgings a
of them.” squeeze.
and six other suspected Adams, 66, was arrested former. Detectives freed Adams, whose Irish nation- Smaller, in fact, than what’s
alist party leads Northern permitted for a German
IRA veterans will face no last year on suspicion of Adams without charge af- Ireland’s Irish Catholic mi- shepherd dog.
nority, called the decision An Associated Press survey
charges over the outlawed involvement in the disap- ter four days of question- “long overdue.” He said he has found that several of
had been falsely accused Germany’s 16 states have
group’s 1972 abduction, pearance of Jean McCo- ing, but sent an evidence as part of “a sustained and waived the usual rules
malicious campaign seek- expected of communal
ing to involve me with the housing.
killing of Mrs. McConville.” As a result, migrants in
After his release from cus- some parts of Germany
tody in May 2014, Adams are finding themselves liv-
said detectives had grilled ing in cramped conditions
him about audio tapes that rights groups say are
from two IRA veterans, Do- unfit for human habitation.
lours Price and Brendan “The situation is becoming
Hughes, both of whom had dramatic,” said Karl Kopp,
identified Adams as an IRA an expert on refugee pol-
commander in Belfast in icy with the campaign
group Pro Asyl.
1972 responsible for order- “If we put people up in un-
dignified conditions then
ing McConville’s killing and this will have long-term
consequences for their
disappearance. health and their ability to
integrate in the country.”
Negotiators: On Sunday 14 people —
including three police offi-
Weapons withdrawal deal reached in east Ukraine cers — were injured when
a mass brawl involving hun-
YURAS KARMANAU Western-aligned Ukrainian weapons could be signed gled out Russia’s support dreds of refugees broke
Associated Press government and Russia- within days, but the talks for separatists in the east of out at a reception center
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — backed rebels. Many of its dragged on for two weeks. Ukraine as the “main chal- in Calden, near Kassel. The
Representatives of Russia, provisions remain unimple- The cease-fire declared as lenge” to putting an end to site is a tent city originally
Ukraine and the Organiza- mented. part of the February agree- the conflict. designed for 1,000 people
tion for Security and Coop- The leaders of Russia, ment was regularly violat- He also expressed concern but now housing 1,500.
eration in Europe reached Ukraine, France and Ger- ed by both sides until they that separatists’ plans to “Improvised, often cata-
a long-awaited agreement many, who negotiated the declared a new truce on hold local elections in defi- strophically overcrowded
late Tuesday on the with- February agreement, are Sept. 1, which has largely ance of the Ukrainian gov- emergency shelters of-
drawal of tanks and other meeting in Paris on Friday held. ernment might derail the fer residents no privacy or
weapons from the frontline to try to push forward a po- NATO Secretary-General full implementation of the place to retreat,” Pro Asyl
in eastern Ukraine. litical settlement for eastern Jens Stoltenberg on Tues- peace accord. said following the incident.
“This is a document that Ukraine, where the fighting day told The Associated The deal reached Tuesday “Every trip to the canteen,
opens a path to peace, has killed more than 8,000 Press the latter is a positive in Minsk, Belarus, by the so- to the toilets or the showers
a path to an end of vio- people since it began in sign which proves a “possi- called Contact Group calls becomes a patience test
lence and attacks,” Rus- April 2014. bility of progress” on other for tanks, artillery and also in these mass shelters.”q
sian negotiator Azamat To lay the groundwork for provisions of international mortars up to 120 mm to
Kulmukhametov said. that meeting, their foreign agreements. be pulled back at least 15
The deal supplements a ministers met in Berlin on The NATO leader, who kilometers (9 miles) from the
broad agreement signed in Sept. 12 and afterward spoke at the sidelines of frontline, OSCE negotiator
February aimed at ending expressed hope that the the annual U.N. General Martin Sajdik said.q
the conflict between the agreement on withdrawing Assembly in New York, sin-