02/05/2017

Fresh Search For Disappeared Victim's Body To Begin In France

A fresh search is to get underway in northern France on Tuesday, 02 May, for the remains of one of Northern Ireland's Disappeared.

Seamus Ruddy, 32, was abducted in Paris and killed by the INLA in 1985. He was secretly buried in France.

The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) will start the search at a forest at Pont-de-l'Arche outside Rouen.

Mr Ruddy was from Newry and was teaching in Paris.

Pic: Wave Trauma Centre

(CD)


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