The Manchester Bomb - Short Film

[@keithglasgow5050]

I was working at a restaurant called The Grinch on chapel walk off cross st when it happened.we were the last to be evacuated after the blast .what a sight we all seen walking to police vans waiting it was very scary and moving at the same time .I’ll never forget that day 🙏

[@InterMalager]

So strange that this happened on the day Paul Gascoigne scored that goal against Scotland, maybe football saved people that day by being elsewhere! I knew the authorities cleared the area and the perpetrators also made things known to save innocent lives, im glad the casualties were minimal, but the damage was huge

[@lisatoomey6643]

2.24 into video I'm the girl with the bobbed hair and black short skirt in the bottom left corner. Aged 11 walking past a van with a bomb. I remember that day so vividly.

[@davidthorley6902]

There's footage of the van parked up hazards flashing but wheres the footage of the van arriving at the guys getting out and leaving iv read they had hats on a sunglasses so they were seen leaving the van for sure 😎

[@ededdynova]

One thing the IRA was always call in a warning in the UK imagine the scene if there was no warning like islamic start etc….

[@invisibleman4827]

1) The IRA did it to stop others claiming their bombings, they never did it to stop killing from happening. 2) It's not something to be proud of, like saying someone isn't guilty of murder because they threatened to do so first

[@ededdynova]

@@invisibleman4827 bah ha ha ha errr they knew if killed hundreds there would be a war on them every force no stone left un turned funny how they went super quite when the world declared war on terror. Were did you even get point two from (thin air?) where does proud come from? your obviously one of those Muppets who reads emotion/intention etc... in a bit of text that isn't there. I bet you judge the 70's by todays standards tooo lol

[@deadbread8446]

​@@invisibleman4827The British occupier is barking something about people who want their country back for themselves

[@invisibleman4827]

@@deadbread8446 Is that supposed to be a defence for this? Whataboutism?

[@papatango2453]

I remember walking through Manchester in 1997 for ages.... The windows were all put in with the blast. Horrific! Glad nobody died.... I also saw the bin site in Warrington where the two poor boys were murdered..... Shocking! No we have the mozzer threat EVERYWHERE!

[@liamkeane9159]

Been irish wrking in uk at the time was brutal

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

Who was filming that truck from the helicopter? And why? What are the chances of somebody filming the vehicle at the moment of explosion?

[@RobTaylor]

The IRA would always phone the UK Authorities with an agreed code word to confirm a bomb. So they knew the van had a bomb in it and evacuated the area before it exploded. They had a also sent a bomb disposal robot to it before it exploded to confirm it wasn’t a hoax. This is why the cameras were focused on the van. I don’t believe it was filmed from a helicopter, it would have been from a nearby building. I worked in a law firm a few streets away and it blew the windows out of the building

[@ogrebattle22763]

Use your God given brain mate.....

[@ThatTallGuy0]

Abandoned lorry, illegally parked, no sign writing, the IRA very much in full swing. I imagine it was reported and the police searched and found the bomb

[@Paulco67]

The IRA phoned in a warning

[@ohlawdymissclaudy5758]

1996-2016? Sadly you'll have to extend that to at least 2017. RIP victims

[@Eoghandillon7]

No one dies haha the target was never to kill anyone either

[@friotaiocht101]

What victims? There were no victims.... no one died...

[@ThatTallGuy0]

@@Eoghandillon7 people in the north of england had a lot of sympathies for Ireland. Then the IRA started bombing the north for some reason Should have kept it at Westminster

[@juliepownall1063]

I was in the back garden heard an almighty explosion then saw it on the news 🥺

[@RedVenomofficalpage2023]

i worked in the ramada hotel on this time and days i took people up too the hotel roof too see the damage they need the aramy locals was looting and the back handers of the work after was crazy ..i hear storys about how it was set up too go off now look at manchester makes me wonder

[@scootermom1791]

I can't believe people. They will take any opportunity to "loot" aka steal. I've watched docs about airline crashes, and there seriously are people who try to steal from deceased people. It's sickening!

[@olliephelan]

@@scootermom1791 It can be a type of hysteria. When rules collapse in that way , they really collapse

[@scootermom1791]

@@olliephelan interesting theory. I could see it as something like that as well, but you'd think people would stop and think "What if it were YOUR loved ones this happened to?"

[@olliephelan]

@@scootermom1791 I mean the looting. If you saw a nice pair of trainers in the rubble you might think, "Why not, worse things have happened" Or , it can be just panic. People grab things when they panic. look at covid and the mass buying of toilet tissue for no logical reason There was 2 "loved ones".? Theres 3500 dead in N.Ireland. 66 children shot dead by the British Army State sanctioned murder. Mass internment without trial . Juryless trial. Owning certain books were illegal. Ye have to remember that they were technically UK citizens who were being interned, and tortured by the UK government The European Court ruled against Britain on torture of civilians Its the same 5 methods used on SAS candidates The idea of the bombing campaign in England was to force the British people to ask why it was happening . Because no one noticed a bomb in N.Ireland There was 2000 bombs in 1972 alone. There was one fatality for every 100 bombs. They were designed to make the occupation too expensive. Not to kill, unless they were soldiers or RUC After Canary Wharf , British strategy changed completely and within 2 years there was a genuine Peace Process. The same Process that could have been agreed to 20 years earlier.

[@PerSkeles]

Bombs are dangerous.

[@TheGtx1977]

So why wasn't the fire service allowed into the most recent Manchester bombing, to help, for....what was it?? 90 minutes?? Please don't say....because of fear of a second blast because it didn't bother the brave firefighters in '96?? I'm 100% sure I know why. I would just like to hear your explanation and explain the difference please! !

[@geoffwhite7535]

cos maybe a booby `trap` a second bomb

[@plug007]

if they were terrorists they would not have phoned in warnings.

[@johnpatrick9574]

ira did phone with a code to warn.

[@geoffwhite7535]

ooooooooo did Germans say they phone say we going to drop bombs on London

[@startmakingsense2071]

@@geoffwhite7535 you sound as smart as you look

[@geoffwhite7535]

@@startmakingsense2071 yes know cos lived in BELFAST Know the like Gerry Adams is a LIER same all siinner fein/IRA

[@andrewharman8712]

@@geoffwhite7535 *liar

[@elizabethtaylor4419]

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