Paramilitaries are offering young people the chance to clear their drug debts if they take part in rioting, MPs have been told.
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"From what I've heard from young people, they can get up to £80 of drug debt cleared," Megan Phair, from The Stop Attacks Forum, said. "That is the first time we have heard that," the committee's chairman Simon Hoare said in response to Ms Phair's evidence."These young people are terrified. They don't have £50 or £100 but they can go out and riot.The lobby group is made up of youth workers and clergy, amongst others, and campaigns against paramilitary shootings, beatings and intimidation.
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