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THREE MEN HAVE been arrested in the investigation into the murder of Mikolaj Wilk in Co Cork last June.
On 10 June 2018, four men kicked down 35-year-old Wilk’s front door and subjected him to a brutal 10-minute assault with what gardaí believe was a machete. His family were in the house at the time.
His wife Elzbieta suffered serious slash wounds to her arms and hands as she tried to fend off the attackers.
This morning, gardaí carried out a number of searches in the Ballincollig area, and arrested three men, all aged in their 30s.
The three men are being detained at Gurranabraher and Bridewell Garda Stations under the provisions of Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2017.
Previously, gardaí had been liaising with Latvian, Polish and Lithuanian police in their attempts to trace those who gardaí believe killed the popular landscape gardener.
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Fair play to the Guards. Don’t envy their job tho getting the guys responsible for this atrocity !!!
Good to see these arrests for thist terrible vile act.
Proportionally there is a huge amount of Eastern europeans in jail in Ireland for violent crimes. There are many good people here from Europe but we are a draw for criminals too unfortunately.
@acallkelly: interesting. Where can I find these stats?
@acallkelly: And criminals emigrate from Ireland too. Plenty of them in Spain and Australia. I don’t get what your point is….
Great work Gardai
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I think Brexit would never have happened if EU countries had the right to refuse other EU immigrants with serious criminal records. There’s enough Irish and British criminals in Ireland and UK as it is. Immigration is great I think but surely controlling it is the biggest no brainer ever
@Paul Donaghy: citizens with a criminal record can be refused entry to another EU country. The UK refused to spend money enhancing their border controls so proper checks are not made.
Ehttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2016/mar/29/eu-dangerous-criminals-allowed-free-entry-uk-vote-leave-claims
@Kevin Barry:
citizens with a criminal record can be refused entry to another EU country. The UK refused to spend money enhancing their border controls so proper checks are not made.
@Paul Donaghy: We used to get the best immigrants on earth, people who went that extra mile, looking past places London and going where the herd didn’t. They specifically chose Ireland or it chose them.
Nowadays immigrants are being sent here, whether or not it is their preference. Some can’t/won’t/don’t integrate organically so to speak.
They are pawns in some bizarre game started by Peter Sutherland (burn in hell), for reasons best known to him and his masters.
So are we.
@Paul Donaghy: Ireland can refuse any one from the EU with a criminal record
that goes for irish ppl in EU too
My be if the 26 states acted one there rules the UK might stay in
Sooner Ireland leaves the EU the better. Irish people wanna live in Australia Canada America not feckin Lithuania Romania or Belgium.
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http://www.europarl.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/en/media/euromyths.html
For the people who believe all the bull published about the EU in the UK here
is a fact checker link for you.
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