Sinn Féin Councillor Gerard McCabe said the young adults doctoring fireworks don’t seem to understand how dangerous the fireworks can be.
Doctored fireworks with nails attached and spilt open to enable them to fire across the ground have the capability to kill.
“These are not young children who are firing these fireworks – it is young adults who know exactly what they are doing but they don’t seem to understand the potential of the consequences,” said the Sinn Féin councillor.
“They have lifted it up a level by attaching items such as nails and appear to be determined to seriously injure or maim someone.
“I appeal to them to step back and think about what you are doing because there is the possibility that the person injured by these devices could be someone from their own family.”
Gerard spoke to one resident who had a firework thrown through his car window as he was driving.
“It went through the back window – very luckily no-one was in the back seat. Who knows what could have happened if there was.”
He also appealed to shop owners to be vigilant, for those selling fireworks illegally to stop and for the PSNI to clamp down on the trade of illegal fireworks
“I would appeal to those who are selling them legally to be very aware of selling them to youngsters.”
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