MEP attacks preferential treatment for ex-prisoners over innocent victims
01 May 2009
Statement by TUV MEP Jim Allister
"Under the EU Peace III programme, whose criteria and target groups were approved by OFMDFM, I am appalled at the preference being given to ex-prisoners groups over innocent victims. Not only, have ex-prisoners got £10m under the first tranche of Peace III, approved by OFMDFM, but as a "target group" they have the advantage of being able to qualify for funding under both their own aegis but equally they can poach funds from the target group, "victims of the conflict", because of the monstrous definition of victim which includes perpetrators of violence."
