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SF posters on bonfire ‘a hate crime’ - Finucane

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Sinn Féin representative John Finucane has said he has contacted police after some of his campaign posters were attached to a bonfire.

He said they were placed on the one in the Conway Street area of Belfast - and has reported it as a hate crime.

Mr Finucane said: “The burning of tricolours, effigies and posters of both Sinn Féin candidates and those from other parties is wrong.

“It sends the totally wrong message to young people and families attending bonfires that it is OK to witness the images of others being burnt on pyres.

"These are hate crimes and are being treated as such by the PSNI.”

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