A man has been remanded into custody in Northern Ireland charged with terror offences linked to a cross-border police investigation into a planned attack on a mosque.<\/p>\n
Connor Pollock, 38, from Croob Park, in Ballynahinch in Co Down, appeared before a district judge in Downpatrick Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n
No application for bail was made during the short hearing before judge Peter Magill.<\/p>\n
The charges relate to an alleged plot by a group styling itself as the Irish Defence Army to attack a mosque and also target accommodation facilities used to house migrants.<\/p>\n
The investigation into violent far-right extremism is being conducted by police on both sides of the Irish border.<\/p>\n
Pollock is charged with three offences under the UK Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n
He is accused of possessing documents or records likely to be of use to terrorists.<\/p>\n
According to the charge sheet document, that count relates to a \u201cclaim of responsibility by the Irish Defence Army for the burning of a mosque and a threat of future violence against persons or places connected to the provision of facilities for migrants, and Warning Notices to persons connected to the provision of accommodation for migrants\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pollock is also charged with withholding information which might prevent an act of terrorism, specifically a \u201cterrorist attack on a mosque by persons identifying themselves as the Irish Defence Army\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pollock is also charged with possession of an article for use in terrorism, namely a Galaxy Samsung phone.<\/p>\n
During the short court hearing, Pollock answered yes when asked whether he understood the charges.<\/p>\n
A Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) detective sergeant told the court he could connect the accused to the charges.<\/p>\n
A solicitor for Pollock told the court that no bail application would be made on Thursday, due to a lack of suitable bail address, but that an application would be made next week.<\/p>\n
The judge remanded the accused in custody to appear before court again, via videolink, on Monday December 15.<\/p>\n
Pollock was arrested on Tuesday in Ballynahinch. Two other people were detained on the same day in connection with the cross-border probe.<\/p>\n
A 40-year-old woman arrested in Lurgan, Co Armagh, was released pending a report to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
A 48-year-old man arrested in Kilkeel, Co Down, was released following questioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been remanded into custody in Northern Ireland charged with terror offences linked to a cross-border…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,101106,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,13261,9168,2104,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-228827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-extremism","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-place-northern-ireland","tag-place-republic-of-ireland","tag-place-uk","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115705436163012748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}