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Truck Slams into Christmas Market in Berlin — Mod note in OP

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  • #122
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,509 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    KingBrian2 wrote: »
    That incident was a terrorist attack also. It occurred simultaneously with other bombings in Britain.

    No it was a bin truck and an accident


  • #123
    legocrazy505
    Closed Accounts Posts: 691 ✭✭✭legocrazy505


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I will delete my boards account if it doesn't turn out to be muslim related.

    Good for you but you'll find nowhere in my posts did I say it isn't a terrorist attack, just that we don't know for a fact that it is. It's being "treated as" one last time I checked.


  • #124
    Irishmale0399
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Irishmale0399


    Bob24 wrote: »
    Unfortunately since this high level of policing is not sifficicient to prevent such incidents from reccururing somewhere on the continent every couple of months, I think we'll see more and more public event involving large crowds being cancelled in Europe (I assume some of them have already been cancelled at their early planning stages in the past year due to safety concerns).

    I totally agree with you. Unfortunately you cant prevent every attack, however it is now time for Merkel to take action. Needless to say this will be played down in the press and wiped under the table like many other incidents over the last 18 months.
    Personally refused this year to visit Xmas markets in big cities witht he wife as I suspected that something would happen.....unfortunately a very easy target. However if I am honest I was expecting an attack in NRW because of it close proximity to Belgium. Could be in and out of Düsseldorf/Köln with a car bomb within an hour or two.


  • #125
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    JPCN1 wrote: »
    Don't know honestly, thats going down a very dark road...

    But I don't know what you do in the face of such hatred.

    I don't see how it's a dark road. If you are spouting hardline Islamist ****e, I really couldn't care less what happens to you once the outcome involves your death and removal from the society.


  • #126
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    RIP to all, dudes just having a glass of gluewhein and not going home after. Crazy ****


    BBC keep calling it "an attack" is it being declared a terrorist attack?


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  • #127
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,965 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    There is blood on the hands of so many over this. The appeasers,enablers and apologists, that regularly post on here included.


  • #128
    Koa Chubby Signpost
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Koa Chubby Signpost


    God, I was only at that market 2 weeks ago,
    really brings it home. Scary stuff. RIP


  • #129
    legocrazy505
    Closed Accounts Posts: 691 ✭✭✭legocrazy505


    vicwatson wrote: »
    RIP to all, dudes just having a glass of gluewhein and not going home after. Crazy ****


    BBC keep calling it "an attack" is it being declared a terrorist attack?

    Treated as such by the police, no 100% confirmation though (even though you'd think there was looking at this place).


  • #130
    Irishmale0399
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Irishmale0399


    Now media reporting that 1 suspect found dead in the cabin of the lorry. Possible second has been caught by police....


  • #131
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    it's probably going to turn out to be second or third generation turks, is my guess. and that will legitimise the lunatic fringe allowing unfettered immigration.


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  • #132
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    legocrazy505 wrote: »
    Treated as such by the police, no 100% confirmation though (even though you'd think there was looking at this place).

    Yes I thought that so BBC should F right off, "Berlin truck attack" on BBC news 24:eek:


  • #133
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Sky News woman in studio: "These Christmas markets are hugely popular, especially at this time of year"

    Excellent investigative journalism right there


  • #134
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    legocrazy505 wrote: »
    Treated as such by the police, no 100% confirmation though (even though you'd think there was looking at this place).

    I really hope that if it is confirmed a terrorist attack, you turn some of that anger you direct at posters here, on those that allow Islamic Fundamentalist teachings to proliferate across Europe.


  • #135
    Bob24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,886 ✭✭✭✭Bob24


    Irishmale0399 wrote: »
    Bob24 wrote: »
    Unfortunately since this high level of policing is not sifficicient to prevent such incidents from reccururing somewhere on the continent every couple of months, I think we'll see more and more public event involving large crowds being cancelled in Europe (I assume some of them have already been cancelled at their early planning stages in the past year due to safety concerns).

    I totally agree with you. Unfortunately you cant prevent every attack, however it is now time for Merkel to take action. Needless to say this will be played down in the press and wiped under the table like many other incidents over the last 18 months.
    Personally refused this year to visit Xmas markets in big cities witht he wife as I suspected that something would happen.....unfortunately a very easy target. However if I am honest I was expecting an attack in NRW because of it close proximity to Belgium. Could be in and out of Düsseldorf/Köln with a car bomb within an hour or two.
    Yes, while in the short term cancelling might be the right thing to do in some cases, simply acknowledging that developed European countries can't allow their citizens to organise these events as then have been doing for decades or centuries wouldn't be acceptable - drastic reflections on the root cause and actions need happen quickly.


  • #136
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    There is blood on the hands of so many over this. The appeasers,enablers and apologists, that regularly post on here included.

    You sound delighted. The sheer glee certain posters get on here when they have an opportunity to go "I told you so!!!!" every so often when there is an incident is disgusting.


  • #137
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Indo reporting an attack in zurich earlier today


  • #138
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,949 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Sky News woman in studio: "These Christmas markets are hugely popular, especially at this time of year"

    Excellent investigative journalism right there

    Wait till we hear Kay Burley's insight...


  • #139
    NoFreeGaffs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 198 ✭✭NoFreeGaffs


    Busy Christmas for jihadists in Germany. A 12 year old boy tried to blow up a bomb in Ludwigshafen Christmas market on Friday.
    “A 12-year old German-Iraqi boy tried to detonate a bomb at a Christmas market in the western town of Ludwigshafen last month and planted another explosive device near the town hall a couple of days later, German prosecutors said on Friday.

    Focus magazine cited security and judicial sources as saying the boy was “strongly radicalized” and apparently instructed by an unknown member of the militant group Islamic State.”

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-idUSKBN1450R5

    Germany has imported an absolutely huge problem that future generations will severely regret. I've lost count of the number of recent terror attacks in Europe. This is the new normal.


  • #140
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Sky News woman in studio: "These Christmas markets are hugely popular, especially at this time of year"

    Excellent investigative journalism right there


    She might be into dark comedy, which would be highly inappropriate.


  • #141
    Donal55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Donal55


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Wait till we hear Kay Burley's insight...


    'Sadness in his eyes....'


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  • #142
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I will delete my boards account if it doesn't turn out to be muslim related.

    Polish plates on the truck.
    Kurwa :o


  • #143
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Irishmale0399 wrote: »
    Christmas Markets have been overly policed this year. You would want to be blind not to see the cops walking around in plain clothes with sniffer dogs. You could read only last week that a 12 year old was caught for the second time in a number of weeks with a jar/nail bomb which he planned to place at a Xmas market in Ludwigshafen after contact with known IS supporters....suspect Merkel isnt telling us an eight of whats going on.

    Anyways....local German press reporting at least 9 dead, over 50 injured and claims being made the lorry driver is armed (supposed to have fired a shot whilst leaving the scene) and on the run.

    And for some reason we do not seem to count the failed Attacks. There need to be deaths before it gets taken seriously. There have been arrests and failed plots every second week this year. Their army is big and hidden, and we do not know half of what is going on


  • #144
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,987 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    What's with all these references to people gloating and rejoicing terrorist attacks? Don't see any of that here. Imagination running away with people again.

    The usual suspects are jumping on this and using it as vindication of their beliefs when the simple fact is that we don't know.

    We don't know who did this or why.

    We had a Bus hit people at the 66 bus stop and that wasn't deliberate.

    Even if it turns out to be a foreigner and deliberate it doesn't mean that it's terrorist related. We had a guy charge down Henry St at 60mpg and that wasn't a terrorist attack.

    Might it be? Yeah, it might be. If this is deliberate then we all hope that the guy responsible is punished. However people here are already using this to vindicate their beliefs. Posts about Merkel and Russia and all kinds of stuff.

    The fact is that people have been killed but people are more interested in using this to justify their political beliefs.


  • #145
    Clarebelly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 250 ✭✭Clarebelly


    Bob24 wrote: »
    Yes, while in the short term cancelling might be the right thing to do in some cases, simply acknowledging that developed European countries can't allow their citizens to organise these events as then have been doing for decades or centuries wouldn't be acceptable - drastic reflections on the root cause and actions need happen quickly.

    Cancelling tradition cultural events is the slippery slope to sharia law.
    The events go..... what's next?
    The moulding has begun.


  • #146
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    There is blood on the hands of so many over this. The appeasers,enablers and apologists, that regularly post on here included.

    There you have it folks. Sort out the right posters on boards and Islamic terrorism will go away.


  • #147
    twinytwo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,612 ✭✭✭twinytwo


    NoFreeGaffs wrote: »
    European hospitality and compassion is misinterpreted as weakness. It's time our politicians stopped offering it, because this approach is not working.

    The whole continent will eventually be inflamed with this madness.

    It is weakness though, too many of the EU's politicians are cowards all they care about is lining their pockets. No one wants to answer the hard questions.

    People are waiting for the likes of Merkel to do something, hell will freeze over first.

    I'm surprised by the German people the most, how many times do you have to get kicked in the teeth before you react?


  • #148
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,612 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    You sound delighted. The sheer glee certain posters get on here when they have an opportunity to go "I told you so!!!!" every so often when there is an incident is disgusting.

    Again there we have the glee word. Basically if anyone says anything linking Islam to terrorist incidents they are lambasted by the bleeding hearts for being "gleeful" and delighted. How predictable.


  • #149
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    Personally think all muslims should be profiled at this stage. They add absolutely nothing to Europe. They leave their country full of problems and bring their problems with them. They cause nothing but headaches.


  • #150
    JPCN1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 944 ✭✭✭JPCN1


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    You sound delighted. The sheer glee certain posters get on here when they have an opportunity to go "I told you so!!!!" every so often when there is an incident is disgusting.

    It's a much greater pity there is an 'every so often'.


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  • #151
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Wait till we hear Kay Burley's insight...

    Kay is off looking for a traumatised bearded dragon


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