Footage shows the moment an infuriated shopper berates an older woman for selling poppys in a Tesco branch in Northern Ireland.
Confrontation, in Lurgan, near Belfast, saw woman berate pensioner behind stall. Do you know either woman in this video?. Ulster Unionist Party leader said ordeal was 'intimidating' for pensionerThis is the shocking moment a Northern Irish Tesco shopper hits out at a poppy seller, demanding to know who gave her permission to sell 'badges for murderers'.
He wrote:" Sold every year to raise funds for the poppy appeal and RBL. If you can’t see how intimidating it was for this lady then maybe you are part of the issue I raise in my original tweet." Filming her shouts, she rages: 'This is not acceptable! This is not acceptable to the Catholic community in this town.
As they left the store she shouted after them: 'Murderers! Murderers! RUC murderers! That's what they are.' Northern Ireland Assembly member Jonathan Buckley said he had reached out to the woman behind the stall - and warned that those selling poppies have been victim to 'disrespect and hostility' in the run up to this year's remembrance events
A symbol of remembrance for the country's patriot dead from the 1916 Easter Rising, it has also been used in memorials to IRA members who died in the Troubles.
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