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To: Newry Mourne & Down District Councillors
No expansion for Thales missile testing facility
Weapons manufacturer Thales has applied for planning permission to expand its missile testing facility site on the outskirts of Crossgar. Newry Mourne Down District Council, chiefly its planning committee must deliberate on this. We call for the planning applications to be rejected.
Why is this important?
Thales is complicit in supplying Israel’s drones for use in its genocidal campaign against the people of Palestine. It is heavily interlinked with Elbit Systems to do so. Thales also provides other indirect supports to the Israeli military & intelligence services. Politicians across Ireland should be rejecting all such applications, investments & state support for firms complicit in genocide & warmongering, alongside divestment & ending government support.
To add insult to injury, this development comes downstream of Thales receiving a £1.6B investment deal from the British Treasury for missile production in the North of Ireland. The plans form part of a £100m spend from Thales to expand their facilities regionally. When workers & the public services they rely on are on their knees we are seeing warfare instead of welfare. We need homes, healthcare, not bombs!
We must spread word as to Thales complicity and to prevent the applications succeeding due to flying under the radar. A mass campaign involving many people makes it less likely they can succeed.
