Former IRA member admits to 1996 attack on British barracks in Germany

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Former IRA member admits to 1996 attack on British barracks in Germany

The Irishman has confessed to taking part in a mortar attack aimed at British soldiers housed in a barracks in the city of Osnabrück. However, the defendant said the IRA splinter group was not trying to kill anyone.

It took over twenty years to track the suspect down, but when the trial finally opened on Wednesday, a confession came the same day.

In a court in the northern city of Osnabrück, a 48-year-old Irish man and former member of an Irish Republican Army (IRA) paramilitary group admitted that he had been an accomplice in an attack on the British army's Quebec Barracks in the same city on June 28, 1996.

The suspect is being tried for attempted murder, with a total of 15 hearings set to occur before December.

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