Another incident. Paris again.

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https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2017/0619/883940-paris-champs-elysees/


Is there no end to these incidents? At this stage I just despair.

Amirani

A driver deliberately rammed his car into a police van as it drove down Paris' Champs Elysees avenue and was killed, police said, adding that no officers or bystanders were injured and the situation was under control.

I know the ending is a result we should be happy about, but Christ, what a terrible excuse for a terrorist attack :P

NIMAN

Bit of a half arsed attempt.

Jayop

What a useless piece of ****

Captain Obvious

Amirani wrote: »

I know the ending is a result we should be happy about, but Christ, what a terrible excuse for a terrorist attack :P

Sounds more like an average weekend in one of the rougher Dublin areas.

McDermotX

The interior ministry later confirmed the driver was dead and a Kalashnikov, handguns and gas bottles were found in the car.

Shouldn't laugh, but the fact that he was tooled up and ready to rock, makes the outcome all the sweeter.

Rubbish terrorist.

Tell me how

Patricia Big Mussel wrote:

Is there no end to these incidents? At this stage I just despair.

I think it's interesting (and also a bit worrying/saddening) that it took 5 hours before a thread was started on it.

Something to do with the low number of casualties and the frequency of the attacks. Plus it shows people are becoming used to the news and desensitized to the impact.

I see "some" degree of comfort in that these people are now frequently being identified as having been on lists, think the alternative, that every attacker was unknown would be scarier as it would mean security services had absolutely no clue of who potential attackers were.

Once they improve monitoring and profiling of the people on the list, hopefully we'll hear of attacks being thwarted.

Improved monitoring could mean less privacy for everyone which could have negative prospects also.

Scary times.

Biggest lickspittle on boardz

Once again, a line stands out in the article

: A report on France's BFM TV said the man was known to security services and had been carrying a gas bottle in the car.

We really need to start getting them before they get us.

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Will Paris be joining the list of cheap holiday destinations?

Fear No Evil

Remember when we used to joke that Muslim terror attacks would become a daily part of European life? Ha ha, what a funny joke.

donegaLroad

Darwin award nomination

tea and coffee

Do you think that sometimes these are just death by cop type suicides? That the people want to die anyway and this gives them an outlet. Like that German pilot who
flew into a mountain. Wanted to die but hey, why not take a bunch of people with me, for infamy.
Are they suicidal? And preyed on by people convincing them to go ahead anfd "jump"? Or do they actually truly believe in the cause?

CaptainR

tea and coffee wrote: »

Do you think that sometimes these are just death by cop type suicides? That the people want to die anyway and this gives them an outlet. Like that German pilot who
flew into a mountain. Wanted to die but hey, why not take a bunch of people with me, for infamy.
Are they suicidal? And preyed on by people convincing them to go ahead anfd "jump"? Or do they actually truly believe in the cause?

Nah definitely not.
He had a Kalashnikov in his car, I think if he was suicidal he could have done it in a quick and painless way.

They definitely believe in the cause, more so than most factions believe in their own cause. The IRA were never sticking around to make sure their bomb went off.

Beanntraigheach

Will he still be getting his 72 virgins?

wakka12

A lot of them are very bad at being terrorists

FTA69

Terrifying to think what would happen if he had a chance to start firing that at people on the street.

MonkieSocks

AudreyHepburn

Not another one! At what are we going to accept that the softly softly watch and wait approach just isn't working?

Feckoffcup

Europe's future is ruined

Glenster

Fear No Evil wrote: »

Remember when we used to joke that Muslim terror attacks would become a daily part of European life? Ha ha, what a funny joke.

No. I don't remember that.

andekwarhola

tea and coffee wrote: »

Do you think that sometimes these are just death by cop type suicides? That the people want to die anyway and this gives them an outlet. Like that German pilot who
flew into a mountain. Wanted to die but hey, why not take a bunch of people with me, for infamy.
Are they suicidal? And preyed on by people convincing them to go ahead anfd "jump"? Or do they actually truly believe in the cause?

The car was packed with weapons?

Rekop dog

Can't help thinking of the scene in 4 lions when one of them blows themself up prematurely in a field.

Thomas__

Rekop dog wrote: »

Can't help thinking of the scene in 4 lions when one of them blows themself up prematurely in a field.

I also saw that film and have been thinking about it on and off in recent times due to the increasing Terror attacks by Jihadis. Although the film itself was made as a parody on real Jihadists, it's not funny anymore to watch it.

Thomas__

Feckoffcup wrote: »

Europe's future is ruined

I'm not that pessimistic, but the threat is severe.

Nabber

donegaLroad wrote: »

Darwin award nomination

terrorist and murder suicide are not Darwin awards....

pconn062

The only small positive to take from this is that this silly bastard was planning this for months, training and organising weapons, dreaming of martyrdom and all those lives he was going to take and how much of a hero he would be in the Islamist world, and all that happens is he causes a bit of damage to a police van and ends up dead. Stupid fool.

Rekop dog

Thomas__ wrote: »

I also saw that film and have been thinking about it on and off in recent times due to the increasing Terror attacks by Jihadis. Although the film itself was made as a parody on real Jihadists, it's not funny anymore to watch it.

Why's it not funny anymore. Because it's happening more often closer to home now?

Death tolls from suicide attacks reached its all time peak in 2007(hasn't been surpassed since) before this film was made so why was it funny then?

Thomas__

pconn062 wrote: »

The only small positive to take from this is that this silly bastard was planning this for months, training and organising weapons, dreaming of martyrdom and all those lives he was going to take and how much of a hero he would be in the Islamist world, and all that happens is he causes a bit of damage to a police van and ends up dead. Stupid fool.

Maybe he wasn´t that sort of a stupid fool as in your opinion and just "f'cked it up" himself. Better so than to succeed in his madness to kill as many people he could have killed. These days, as seen in the recent Terrorist attacks in London, Vans are used as weapons and look at what that has caused.

Thomas__

Rekop dog wrote: »

Thomas__ wrote: »

I also saw that film and have been thinking about it on and off in recent times due to the increasing Terror attacks by Jihadis. Although the film itself was made as a parody on real Jihadists, it's not funny anymore to watch it.

Why's it not funny anymore. Because it's happening more often closer to home now?

Death tolls from suicide attacks reached its all time peak in 2007(hasn't been surpassed since) before this film was made so why was it funny then?

Not just that. It shows the examples of a "parallel-life" by the perpetrators and that's what makes it difficult to identify some potential terrorist if he's never been on the Radar of the security forces.

StringerBell

Are ISIS even going to put their name to this muppet?

Be surprised to see them claim credit so quickly

KyussBeeshop

If we didn't have 24hr news/propaganda channels, we'd already be desensitized to this stuff - indeed, I can't be arsed with regular mainstream news sources anymore myself, so have not really paid attention to any of the terrorist attacks of the last number of years - I know of them, but almost like they are in the background.

People would care as much about the attacks going on in other parts of the world - particularly the ME - if our news outlets put a comparable amount of time/focus on those attacks, but they choose not to, because there are political reasons for considering people in that part of the world as 'others'.

So yea the attacks are terrible and all, but I can't really motivate myself to care much, when they are just an expected result of foreign policy of the last decade and a half - i.e. if a country participates in attacking another, they should expect to be attacked back - I don't see why I should care more about one group over another, especially when (looking at the big picture context of the last decade and a half) it's clear who the aggressors are - despite the desire of many to whitewash the obvious events/wars since the new millennium.

Hande hoche!

Reminds me of that suicide bomber on the Somalian airline. Managed to blow himself and that was about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daallo_Airlines_Flight_159

seachto7

KyussBeeshop wrote: »

People would care as much about the attacks going on in other parts of the world - particularly the ME - if our news outlets put a comparable amount of time/focus on those attacks, but they choose not to, because there are political reasons for considering people in that part of the world as 'others'.

How much news do we see from NZ, Aus, Japan on RTE every other day?

topper75

Feckoffcup wrote: »

Europe's future is ruined

It is sad but left-leaning politicians with lax immigration policies set out their stall and people voted for them. How much sympathy can one have?:cool: By voting in Macron, the French have effectively said - "up the dosage please" rather than saying "enough is enough".

We run the same danger here with our 'elite'.

Yesterday in UL High Court Judge Bryan McMahon called us a "nation of immigrants" (sic). These types are tripping over themselves to dilute the place. All we have to protect ourselves is the ballot box. Interesting times.

http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/255815/ireland-is-home-now-new-citizens-rejoice-at-university-of-limerick-ceremony.html

RGDATA!

Fear No Evil wrote: »

Remember when we used to joke that Muslim terror attacks would become a daily part of European life? Ha ha, what a funny joke.

Ì don't remember anyone ever joking about that. Are you mistaken?

wakka12

KyussBeeshop wrote: »

If we didn't have 24hr news/propaganda channels, we'd already be desensitized to this stuff - indeed, I can't be arsed with regular mainstream news sources anymore myself, so have not really paid attention to any of the terrorist attacks of the last number of years - I know of them, but almost like they are in the background.

People would care as much about the attacks going on in other parts of the world - particularly the ME - if our news outlets put a comparable amount of time/focus on those attacks, but they choose not to, because there are political reasons for considering people in that part of the world as 'others'.

So yea the attacks are terrible and all, but I can't really motivate myself to care much, when they are just an expected result of foreign policy of the last decade and a half - i.e. if a country participates in attacking another, they should expect to be attacked back - I don't see why I should care more about one group over another, especially when (looking at the big picture context of the last decade and a half) it's clear who the aggressors are - despite the desire of many to whitewash the obvious events/wars since the new millennium.

Theres no political reasons behind media activity in western countries. They respond to ratings, general public are not interested in the daily bombings of socially dysfunctional middle eastern countries and hence media do not report on it as they want people to be interested in their news. No greater conspiracy behind this

kupus

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

Once again, a line stands out in the article

We really need to start getting them before they get us.

Maybe they are, it's just we dont get to hear about it. Security trades on privacy, so what do we really know, barr the main headlines