Man released over gun attack

A Lithuanian man in his 40s arrested last week in connection with a gun attack in south Dublin has been released without charge…

A Lithuanian man in his 40s arrested last week in connection with a gun attack in south Dublin has been released without charge.

A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Gardaí believe the attack, in which a man was shot five times before his 17-year-old son tackled the gunmen, is linked to a rivalry in the door-to-door collection of second-hand clothes.

The injured man, a 38-year-old also from Lithuania, was wounded in the upper body, neck and chin, but is expected to survive.

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Gardaí believe the gunmen involved were forced to abandon their own car at the scene after the injured man’s son attacked the vehicle, smashing its windows.

The boy was being driven to school by his father when the gunmen struck.

The attack is the second incident in which a foreign national has been shot here because of his involvement in organised door-to-door second-hand clothes collections for charity, or for export to eastern Europe.

The attack occurred just before 8.30am on Friday as the victim and his son were driving out of the Aiken’s Village development near Stepaside, where the family lives in an apartment in the Grianan Fidh area.