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Brock
I was just horrified -- in complete shock. I couldn't believe it," she said.
"When the gardai arrived, the protest ended quite quickly and we walked away and the gardai walked away," the woman said.
Half an hour later the women were on the road, some distance away from the site when eight or nine gardai arrived in a number of patrol cars.
"We didn't expect them to pounce on us and we just managed to switch on the camera," she said.
"They pulled my hands apart and the camera dropped to the ground. The other person picked it up but they pulled her hands apart too. We were put into separate garda cars. We were terrified of being hurt. All the physical force was completely unnecessary," she added.
The two women were processed at Belmullet garda station and released without charge within an hour. They were given the camera back.
"Just hearing them say, 'give me your name and address and I'll rape you . . . I'll definitely rape you'. We were both horrified," she said.
She added that she believed people needed to hear the recording to properly take in the entire content.
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