New Lodge Six shooting
| New Lodge Six shooting | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Troubles | |
A mural to the six men killed which reads "The New Lodge Six – Time for the Truth" | |
| Location | New Lodge, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Date | 3-4 February 1973 |
Attack type | Shooting, mass murder |
| Weapons | Rifles |
| Deaths | 6 (4 civilians and 2 Provisional IRA Volunteers) |
| Injured | 9 |
| Perpetrators | British Army, UDA, suspicion collusion |
The New Lodge Six shooting took place in the late hours of 3 February and the early hours of 4 February 1973, six men, all of whom were Catholics, were shot and killed in the New Lodge area of north Belfast:
- four (one IRA member and three civilians) of them were shot dead at the junction at Edlingham Street by British Army snipers,
- the other two men were shot dead by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), one IRA member and one Italian citizen, the owner of a local café.
Three other men were shot dead on 4 February by what was believed to be Loyalist paramilitaries, taking the total death toll to nine on 3-4 February. The six men killed in the New Lodge area became known as "The New Lodge Six".
There have been allegations over the years that collusion took place between the British security forces and paramilitaries at the time. Northern Ireland's Attorney General in 2018 urged an investigation into the deaths of the New Lodge Six. The Director of Public Prosecutions decided not to ask the PSNI to carry out an investigation, and relatives in 2020 launched a legal action in response.