Nice - Bastille day **mod warning post 1**

Berserker

Anyone else watching the news from Nice? Some lunatic drove a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille day. Several people are dead, according to various media sources.

mod: I've had to remove a video showing terrible things. Please don't post anything like that. Consider the fact that people are not prepared to deal with videos of the results of an attack.

bilston

Berserker wrote: »

Anyone else watching the news from Nice? Some lunatic drove a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille day. Several people are dead, according to various media sources.

Sky reporting a senior official in Nice talking about "dozens dead".

Also qualifying that by saying it is early days in terms of whether it is deliberate or not.

Horrific

bilston

Berserker wrote: »

Anyone else watching the news from Nice? Some lunatic drove a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille day. Several people are dead, according to various media sources.

Sky reporting a senior official in Nice talking about "dozens dead".

Also qualifying that by saying it is early days.

Horrific

BobbyPropane

30 - 50 dead

Berserker

BobbyPropane wrote: »

30 - 50 dead

Shocking stuff.

GLaDOS

https://www.rt.com/news/351086-panic-nice-france-crowd/

RT saying "unconfirmed reports of gunfire"

Hopefully not...

refusetolose

cops gun fighting with dudes in truck

philstar

looks like french security droped their guard after the euros's

bilston

Picture on Sky News of a lorry riddled with bullets which suggests police were trying to stop the vehicle.

BobbyPropane

Shooters are hold up in a local restaurant.

bilston

French TV says at least 30 killed.

Jaysus

skywanderer

Coming to a neighborhood near you soon, if you watched Prime Time tonight it made for shocking viewing.

alchemist33

My first thought was that it might have been like the "accident" in Glasgow a couple of years ago, but apparently not. Shocking stuff

TallGlass

Hopefully, an isolated incident.

Berserker

skywanderer wrote: »

Coming to a neighborhood near you soon, if you watched Prime Time tonight it made for shocking viewing.

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISIS have claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

skywanderer

TallGlass wrote: »

Hopefully, an isolated incident.

A daily occurrence unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks#2016

Strumms

Shocking... Nice is like a home away from home for me and have a good few friends down there... thankfully all coming back as ok thankfully but still..... the world is just such a crap ****ed up place these days...

TallGlass

Berserker wrote: »

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISIS have claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

Seem to be heavily integrated into there society.

Beefy78

Jesus. Some horrible photos on social media. Nice is one of my favourite places in the World, I was only there a week ago. Urgh.

failinis

BBC version http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36800730

A lorry has struck a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city of Nice, media reports and witnesses say.
The incident took place on the Promenade des Anglais during a firework display, the reports said.
One image on Twitter showed about a dozen people lying on the street, some being tended to.
The local prefecture has urged people in the area to remain indoors, calling the incident "an attack".
Some reports spoke of shots being exchanged between police and the occupants of the lorry but these have not been confirmed.
Social media video showed people running through the streets in panic following the incident.
A journalist with the Nice Matin newspaper reported from the scene that there was "a lot of blood and without doubt many injured".
An Agence France-Presse reporter said the incident took place as the firework display was ending, adding: "We saw people hit and bits of debris flying around."
Another image on Twitter showed a white lorry stopped in the middle of the promenade with damage to its front, and four police officers observing it while taking cover behind a palm tree.

Strumms

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Shooters are hold up in a local restaurant.

source ?

Lady is a tramp

Fuuuuck just popped up on my phone (Independent app). At least 30 killed, and local news is reporting that it's being treated as an attack.

With those numbers involved, I'm guessing it was an attack alright rather than an accident, however I wouldn't give much credit to ISIS claiming responsibility for it. They tend to claim all major tragedies!

BobbyPropane

Strumms wrote: »

source ?

Journalist on twitter:

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/753706633805586432

RobertKK

CNN showing a picture of a lot of people lying on the ground, it put a chill down my spine.

The poor French people.

BobbyPropane

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Journalist on twitter:

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/753706633805586432

Sorry ignore that, realised there it's that right wing EDL fella..... apologies

YFlyer

Berserker wrote: »

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISISthave claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

RTE plus 1 on now

speedboatchase

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Journalist on twitter:

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/753706633805586432

Tommy Robinson is the far-right former leader of the English Defence League. I'd take his tweets with a pinch of salt for now.

skywanderer

Berserker wrote: »

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISIS have claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

It has nothing to do with France, rather to do with Islamic Demographics and once their population goes above 10% and higher terrorism and trouble are regular occurrences. France has the largest population of Muslims in Europe. France has lax security plus a huge demograph of self-hating liberal SJW who brand any objection to immigration or terrorism to be Racist. This is a problem of Frances own making; the chickens have come home to roost for the French with their ultra-left wing social policies.

RobertKK

Lady is a tramp wrote: »

Fuuuuck just popped up on my phone (Independent app). At least 30 killed, and local news is reporting that it's being treated as an attack.

With those numbers involved, I'm guessing it was an attack alright rather than an accident, however I wouldn't give much credit to ISIS claiming responsibility for it. They tend to claim all major tragedies!

Same I was planning on some light entertainment and then on the Independent app the news popped up.

We are all at one with the French nation, hope we can do more to stop these senseless attacks on innocents.

10s of people killed, hundred injured.

The_Valeyard

****ing hell. This is horrible.


RIP to all the victims. Such a beautiful place, only recently there. This is shocking. Wonderful locals and great atmosphere during the euros.

Shane St.

awful news

Strumms

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Sorry ignore that, realised there it's that right wing EDL fella..... apologies

Yeah... I'd guess knowing where the Bufalo Grill is that if it was the case it would be on the news already...

according to sky news the driver is confirmed dead... If it was multiple shooters at this stage think we'd know... still so ****ing tragic...

philstar

philstar wrote: »

looks like french security droped their guard after the euros's

How do you expect security services to be able to protect 100% of the country 100% of the time. It's impossible!

failinis

RobertKK wrote: »

CNN showing a picture of a lot of people lying on the ground, it put a chill down my spine.

The poor French people.

I know people are just recording what they see but I seen a few pics on twitter of dead people, that if I knew them, I could have identified which is not the way a concerned family/friend should find out or even see.
What a horrible event - reports of shots on twitter, hopefully the police stop it, and hopefully that lorry is not rigged to blow up once opened.

FizzleSticks

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Penny Tration

Christ, not again those poor, poor people. What a horrifying way to go RIP

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnW4EwHWcAAL3Vc.jpg

lawlolawl

skywanderer wrote: »

It has nothing to do with France, rather to do with Islamic Demographics and once their population goes above 10% and higher terrorism and trouble are regular occurrences. France has the largest population of Muslims in Europe. France has lax security plus a huge demograph of self-hating liberal SJW who brand any objection to immigration or terrorism to be Racist. This is a problem of Frances own making; the chickens have come home to roost for the French with their ultra-left wing social policies.

They didn't have any domestic terrorism so they decided to import it.

These attacks are becoming far too frequent. Whatever we are doing as a whole isn't working.

Sand

Berserker wrote: »

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISIS have claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

I think its the French invasion of Iraq in 2003. That is what sparked off ISIS and Islamic terrorism. So I hear.

Harry Palmr

Well it never takes long for a massacre to be turned into a political football on AH.

Omackeral

lawlolawl wrote: »

They didn't have any domestic terrorism so they decided to import it.

These attacks are becoming far too frequent. Whatever we are doing as a whole isn't working.

We? Like the West?

Lackey

Sand wrote: »

I think its the French invasion of Iraq in 2003. That is what sparked off ISIS and Islamic terrorism. So I hear.

The people on the street murdered tonight didn't invade anywhere

Passerby video. Truely sickening.

*removed*

Please don't post videos like this again

ClovenHoof

ISIS just kill anything. They are like Pitbulls with AIDS.

There was a piece in the New York Times last year about how they take a hyperactive amphetmine and often going on killing rampages among themselves when they run out of enemies.

Its like something out of the Middle Ages meets that movie Altered States from the 80s.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Hopefully these lads don't find a supply of anthrax.

Sand

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Well it never takes long for a massacre to be turned into a political football on AH.

Whole wars are turned into political debating points in grander arenas than AH.

Lackey wrote: »

The people on the street murdered tonight didn't invade anywhere

That would imply that ISIS simply do not care about what people who are concerned about the legality of the Iraqi war care about. That would challenge a lot of narcissistic introspection. So it must be rejected.

BobbyPropane

Lackey wrote: »

The people on the street murdered tonight didn't invade anywhere

tbf either were the terrorist involved with the taliban/hussein/nuclear weapons/al qaeda before their families were killed by American/European bombings

speedboatchase

ClovenHoof wrote: »

ISIS just kill anything. They are like Pitbulls with AIDS.

Actually they're very specific about who they kill, and why. This whole narrative that they're simply maniacs with no ideology is harmful.

Amirani

Twitter is great for up to the minute news for things like this, but the amount of graphic pictures and images is a little sickening. Why would you want to tweet something like that?

Sand

BobbyPropane wrote: »

tbf either were the terrorist involved with the taliban/hussein/nuclear weapons/al qaeda before their families were killed by American/European bombings

How many of the attackers in Paris 2015 or London 2007 lost family members to American/European bombings?

Honestly - do you even know who is attacking you?

You are dealing with an evil on par with the Dirlewanger brigade and you are trying to explain their hatred, violence and murder. There is no explanation. You kill them. You bury them. And you continue on.

ambro25

lawlolawl wrote: »

They didn't have any domestic terrorism so they decided to import it.

These attacks are becoming far too frequent. Whatever we are doing as a whole isn't working.

France has had domestic terrorism since the 60s, middle eastern terrorism since the 70s, northern african terrorism since the 90s.

And it did not invade Iraq in 2003. Remember the "freedom fries"?