The soldiers denied shooting the victims named or anyone else by mistake.Principal Conclusions and Overall Assessment of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. The Stationery Office. pp.36–37 The inquiry found that soldiers had been fired at by members of the 'Official IRA' but concluded that the Paras had fired the first shots and that none of the soldiers had fired in response to attacks or to threatened attacks by gunmen or bomb-throwers, although two soldiers suffered slight injuries from acid or a similar, corrosive substance. This inquiry identified failures of leadership and command by the commanding officer, and failures by individual soldiers involved.
