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| Saturday, 1 November 2003 |
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More arrests imminent in New Town Hall attack : Journalist suspects identified by Sarath Malalasekera More arrests are to be made which could include certain journalists of a Sinhala daily who participated in Wednesday's attack on the Sinhala-Tamil Arts Festival at New Town Hall. "We have all the material and names of the suspects involved in that attack. The coming hours will see more arrests," Colombo Crimes Division CCD Director Senior SP Sarath Lugoda told the Daily News yesterday. The CCD have been assigned to carry out investigations jointly with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). "We have already deployed two special teams to arrest the suspects involved in the attack," Lugoda said. "Several journalists attached to a Sinhala daily paper (not the Lake House Group) were seen at the scene attacking participants of the cultural event," the CCD Director said adding: "We have identified them". Prominent members of the Sihala Urumaya were seen among the attackers at the New Town Hall. However Interior Minister John Amaratunga said there was another extremist party involved in Wednesday's mayhem. Earlier the Colombo Chief Magistrate and Additional District Judge A.A.R. Heiyanthuduwa directed the Prison authorities to produce the five suspects, described as members of the Sihala Urumaya remanded in connection with the attack on the cultural event before an identification parade on November 11. The five suspects taken into custody by the Cinnamon Gardens Police on Wednesday night and produced before the Magistrate were remanded until yesterday. Investigators told court that SI Perera who was injured following the attack had been warded at the Colombo National Hospital. Five other persons injured in the attack had obtained OPD treatment. Police officers on duty on the day of the incident had told investigators that they could identify the persons who attacked the people who participated in the cultural event. Police objected to the suspects being released on bail. Two teams from the CCD and the CID are investigating the incident on the direction of Colombo Senior DIG Bodhi Liyanage and CID DIG Lionel Gunatileke. |
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