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

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    #182
    retweet
    Registered Users Posts: 275 ✭✭retweet


    So sad to keep seeing these threads pop up. :( RIP


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    #183
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Road block with police truck. Block the access streets leading to people.

    How many roads? How many police trucks? Every single city in France? How big a truck do you build a barricade to prevent? Just Bastille Day or anytime there's crowds around? Just think about things.

    If there was specific intelligence about a truck attack sure, otherwise, completely impossible to prevent this.


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    #184
    jos28
    Registered Users Posts: 7,189 ✭✭✭jos28


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Local spectator on Sky News moaning about having her shopping trip interupted.

    I just heard that and couldn't believe what I was hearing


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    #185
    vg88
    Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭vg88


    Guns and grenades found in the cabin, this was planed. Happened during the fireworks.
    Those bastards planned this well for max carnage.

    Does anyone know if he's still alive?


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    #186
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,873 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    This sort of attack is beginning to wear a bit thin, understandably, with the French public.

    A presidential election is due in mid-2017, and currently the very savvy Marine Le Pen of the National Front is ahead in the polls, unthinkable a decade ago.

    If these attacks continue to drive moderate French voters to the right, the inevitable outcome is a far-right Government and the lid being lifted on anti-Muslim sentiment, escalating into reprisals, eviction, alienation, subjugation and eventually wholesale attacks on muslim neighbourhoods.

    The only solution is for responsible Muslims to cleanse their own communities of extremists, not turn the blind eye. If they don't, mobs straight out of the 1930s will do it for them, and the next French Govt will be the ones turning the blind eye.

    I dread to think where Europe, and the world frankly, will be in 10 years time, but not a single sign is positive.


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    #187
    stryker mcqueen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭stryker mcqueen


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Local spectator on Sky News moaning about having her shopping trip interupted.

    I was just thinking that , seems kinda disrespectful "we did some lovely shopping and now I'm not bothered with it" cut her off ffs!!!!!


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    #188
    Rainman16
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 566 ✭✭✭Rainman16


    US Media now reporting. Minimum 73 dead.


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    #189
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    questionmark? wrote: »
    3rd major attack since last year in France. I'd say they need to do a better job!

    73 dead so far RIP

    Trying to stop terrorists AND remain a democratic, free society that exists by the rule of law is not easy.


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    #190
    Cool_CM
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Local spectator on Sky News moaning about having her shopping trip interupted.

    Saved by having to go to the ladies'

    Sky will put anybody on...


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    #191
    Gatling
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    moloner4 wrote: »
    Does anyone know if he's still alive?

    Shot dead by police I believe
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    #192
    LordSutch
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    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Not a thing.
    Just an opinion of him

    Lay off Boris, he's said nothing about the attack/tradgedy yet.


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    #193
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Local spectator on Sky News moaning about having her shopping trip interupted.

    Yeah, she was in Nice hoping to see a terrorist attack.


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    #194
    RobertKK
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    Probably dead from a lot of nationalities, maybe some Irish we don't know.
    I was watching the Tour de France a couple of days ago and some beautiful scenery, they said France is the number one tourist destination in the world.
    So one can imagine people from many countries out on the promenade, happy and enjoying themselves and then here we are in a most unimaginable situation.
    When I was younger we had the cold war, but what is going on these days is far more sinister.


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    #195
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    questionmark? wrote: »
    3rd major attack since last year in France. I'd say they need to do a better job!

    Yeah, they should be everywhere all the time to stop everything. They should've known some random concert venue and restaurant would be attacked in Paris and the 6th largest city would be targeted by a truck. Terrible job they're doing.

    Come on the ****, blaming completely the wrong people here.


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    #196
    Cortina_MK_IV
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    moloner4 wrote: »
    Guns and grenades found in the cabin, this was planed. Happened during the fireworks.
    Those bastards planned this well for max carnage.

    Does anyone know if he's still alive?

    Police shot him.


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    #197
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Something has happened at the Eiffel tower too.


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    #198
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Lay off Boris, he's said nothing about the attack/tradgedy yet.

    But you were asking why he was booed?


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    #199
    buckfasterer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭buckfasterer


    The video of the truck driving into the crowd is so scary. Driving slowly then speeding up into people. **** this Islamic State bull****.


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    #200
    [Deleted User]
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    Manic Moran wrote: »
    I agree with those who say that the police couldn't really do anything about the truck. However, it is worth noting (assuming it's an attack) that it wasn't a very good one. Can you imagine the carnage which would have resulted had they filled even a quarter of the truck with explosives to be set off after the drive through? We'd be talking hundreds dead, not scores. The fact that they apparently did not indicates a good likelihood that police monitoring made the acquisition and creation of such materials too risky. In such a case, the French security forces should be commended

    Are you being obtuse on purpose? You have to know better. It's France, where are they going to get a few hundred kilos of explosives without getting caught? A truck is perfect, it's just a truck, how are they going to track everyone who has access to a truck?


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    #201
    buckfasterer
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Something has happened at the Eiffel tower too.

    There was a fireworks display but it malfunctioned.


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    #202
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    super_furry wrote: »
    Yeah, that's help France.

    Jesus wept.

    Better than the spineless lefty Hollande and his taxpayer funded €117,000 pa hairdresser has.


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    #203
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    The entire country is being put on a state of alert as they believe there might be a further attack... Mother of god, not again.


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    #204
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    keith16 wrote: »
    But you were asking why he was booed?

    No, wrong poster, not me.


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    #205
    The Raptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭The Raptor


    Ah jaysus, the world is fcuked. Wish they would stop.


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    #206
    SouthernBelle
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    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    Something has happened at the Eiffel tower too.

    :(

    Where is that being reported?


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    #207
    Negative_G
    Registered Users Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Negative_G


    The religion of peace strikes again.

    The resident AH apologists will be along very shortly to assure us everything is fine.

    Mod-Banned


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    #208
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    LordSutch wrote: »
    No, wrong poster, not me.

    Oops. Anyway, it matters not what BJ has to say on the matter.


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    #209
    Jimmy Garlic
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    Nearly time for roundups and mass deportations I think.


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    #210
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    Will the spineless Obama finally call acts like this as those of 'radical Islam'?

    Let's see.


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    #211
    BorneTobyWilde
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    stryker mcqueen wrote: »
    I was just thinking that , seems kinda disrespectful "we did some lovely shopping and now I'm not bothered with it" cut her off ffs!!!!!


    Hmmm I thought she said '' we did shopping. but that does not ever matter now'' something like that.
    She was clearly saying trivial things like shopping not important now.


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