{"id":1621,"date":"2017-05-09T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T10:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.net\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2017-07-23T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T17:36:11","slug":"upp-politician-charged-for-terror-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/upp-politician-charged-for-terror-video\/","title":{"rendered":"UPP politician charged for \u201cterror\u201d video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Wehner, the United Progressive Party politician who was yesterday on trial for battery on a police officer, has been slapped with 28 more serious charges.<\/p>

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Late yesterday, the police charged Wehner with threatening to kill the prime minister and others featured in the video and with intimidation of the 14 people in it.<\/p>\n

The widely-condemned video shows high-ranking members of the ABLP including the Prime Minister in the cross-hairs of a sniper rifle mixed with sights and sounds of gunfire on a battlefield.<\/p>

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The former army general has taken responsibility for the video but denies making it.<\/p>

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He was charged five months after Prime Minister Gaston Browne condemned the production in parliament as an act of terror.<\/p>\n

The charges come the same day that Wehner\u2019s trial for a battery on Constable Marvin Cuffy, in an unrelated incident, was ongoing in the magistrate\u2019s court.<\/p>

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It has been adjourned until July 24, 2017.<\/p>\n

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