Gardaí make first ever arrest over false claims made by far right members on social media

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2024/10/15/gardai-make-first-ever-arrest-over-false-claims-made-by-far-right-members-on-social-media/

Posted by nitro1234561

15 Comments

  1. Hopefully now with precedent more will follow, I imagine there’s a lot of tweets being deleted at the moment too.

    There’s no low these scum won’t stoop to, even on here yesterday there was a lad yesterday trying to imply Ana Kriegels murderers were immigrants, pure lies to further their agenda.

  2. Important_Farmer924 on

    Good. Every time one of these wasters knowingly spread misinformation online they should be held accountable.

  3. Interesting timing…
    Edit: I shouldn’t be so oblique, it’s been a stressful day, was feeling lazy

  4. boardsmember2017 on

    Brilliant, and with the passing of hate speech legislation now being a formality, we have a step towards creating laws that have actual teeth against this behaviour.

    We must build upon the hate speech legislation to ensure this type of discourse is done away with

  5. Good, hopefully more to follow. The accusations are clear incitements to violence against individuals and groups of people. Also, under the Irish constitution we have a right to a good name. Good to see a constitutional right being protected.

  6. Separate-Steak-9786 on

    I know some people will say “took them long enough” but i would imagine this is am arrest without much precedence. Its important to lock down the first few in order to make sure everything goes smoothly.

  7. Masterchief_Koala98 on

    How long now before they disappear back into the woodwork, hopefully not too long say we.

  8. Thin-Annual4373 on

    Hopefully the judge will give a decent sentence, not a suspended one, as an example to other like-minded morons.

  9. DepecheModeFan_ on

    The people defending this saying it’s free speech are the exact same people who’d be demanding prison time if this was a woman falsely accusing a man.

    Hate filled braindead hypocrites.