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Former Sins-Fein-Führer Gerry Adams leaves the court in Dublin on Friday after winning one of the highest cases of Ireland.
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London – Gerry Adams, the former President of Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Party, won his defamation against the BBC because of a documentary in which he had approved the murder of a British spy from 2006.
This was one of the most famous lawsuits Ireland, who converted the British national broadcast against the man, the meaning finely converted, the political wing of a group in a modern political party.
The jury at the High Court in Dublin returned a judgment after almost seven hours of consultations and awarded Adam’s compensation of 100,000 euros (113,000 US dollars). The four-week legal proceedings included Adams’ alleged membership in the IRA and his role in the decades of Roman Catholic and Protestant fights in Northern Ireland, known as the problems.
The 76 -year -old Adam was President of Sinn Fein from 1983 to 2018. He always denied being a member of Ira Militant Group.
The jury decided that the BBC Adams used in an episode of the BBC Northern Ireland 2016 Headlight Documentary film series and in an accompanying online story. Adams said that the BBC had incorrectly claimed due to an anonymous source that he had approved the murder of Denis Donaldson, a British Mi5 spy and former Sins -Fein officer who was shot in 2006.
The jury rejected the defense of the BBC that its journalism was fair, responsible and in the public interest.
Outside of the court, Adam spoke to reporters in both Irish and English and said that the case was to “bring manners to the BBC”. He said that the BBC “keeps the ethos of the British state in Ireland” and “not synchronized” with the Good Friday contract, the 1998 peace agreement, which officially ended the problems in Northern Ireland.
“It has not meant moving to us on this island as part of the process, the continued process, the establishment of peace and justice and harmony and hopefully in the coming time in unity,” he said.
The director of the BBC Northern Ireland, Adam Smyth, said reporters outside of the court that he was disappointed by the judgment and said: “We believe that the Court of Justice of the careful editorial processes and journalistic care that were applied to this program and the associated online articles provided extensive evidence.”
The BBC argued the claims in the Headlight The documentary – that Adams had approved the murder of Donaldson – was formed as an allegations. Adams argued that they were presented as a fact.
Donaldson was shot in the County of Donegal for months after admitting that he had been a spy for the British secret service and worked for the police and Mi5 in sense for two decades.
The Headlight The program showed an anonymous source that claimed that Adams had approved Donaldson’s killing and said that murders had to be approved by the management of the IRA. When the moderator of the program asked the anonymous source to which he had expressly referred to, he replied: “Gerry Adams. He gave the last word.” A main problem in the process was the alleged past of Adams as Ira leader – an assertion that Adam always rejected.
Nobody was ever convicted in connection with Donaldson’s death. The real IRA – a dissident Republican group born from a separation of the preliminary IRA, the group that participated in the Northern Ireland peace process – – Alleged responsibility for his killing. An investigation by the Irish police still lasts.