'Instead of red and green lanes, they are focused on ensuring their lucrative white lanes of illicit drugs keep flowing into NI', writes brendanhughes64
A month ago loyalist paramilitaries were warning they would "wreck the place" if they were unhappy with the outcome of negotiations on Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol.
Instead, attacks and disorder over the past week or so in Co Down show once again the key priorities for many of these criminals are control, territory and drugs. Almost a dozen attacks have now been carried out in Bangor, Newtownards, Donaghadee and Ballywalter. A pipe bomb was thrown at one property where four children were among the occupants.
The body, which involves representatives of the UVF, factions of the UDA and Red Hand Commando, said the disorder was the "work of competing drug cartels" and dismissed them as "not loyalists". Get the latest politics news and analysis in your inbox Want the biggest political stories sent straight to you?
With bodies such as the Paramilitary Crime Task Force, authorities are making huge efforts to clamp down on criminal gangs and Northern Ireland's illegal drugs trade.
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