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Reports of shootings in Paris

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  • #52
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Second police officer confirmed dead


  • #53
    Exeggcute
    Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭Exeggcute


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What does religion have to do with an armed robbery?

    If it is an armed robbery why is President Hollande holding a crisis meeting with the interior minister and prime minister?

    Would he really do that over an armed robbery?


  • #54
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,129 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »
    What armed robbery? This won't be marked down as crime, robbery, drug related, mental illness, whatever the standard is across the border. We aren't in Germany, the French authorities tried covering up the very first lone wolf attacks back in 2014 and haven't tried since. Unlike Germany they have a population and an investigative media that hold them to account.

    The one where the Police didn't know it happened until the suspect got out of his car, approached their vehicle and shot it up and it seems that he came all the way from Belgium to do it, as there is nothing worth stealing in Belgium.

    It is easy once you sledge hammer that square peg into the round hole.


  • #55
    C Montgomery Gurns II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭C Montgomery Gurns II


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Police sources have said that they believe it to be an armed robbery gone wrong.

    Sounds legit. if you were to pull off an armed robbery the best place to do it and make a clean get away would be in the centre of Paris while it is crawling with heavily armed soldiers police three days from an election that makes the area even more of a target than it usually is.

    Mind you, with the election so close maybe the French establishment have been having a word with Merkel's PR people after all about how you cover an attack up.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Danzy wrote: »
    Shouldn't you be throwing stones at synagogues or something?

    Err.. Why?


  • #57
    Rezident
    Registered Users Posts: 1,804 ✭✭✭Rezident


    I wonder what religion the attacker was.


  • #58
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Link about armed robbery gone wrong? Reading sky news right now and they say it was a deliberate attack on two police officers by a known criminal


  • #59
    greencap
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Rezident wrote: »
    I wonder what religion the attacker was.

    Probably the same one as the attacker in non-EU London the other week.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



  • #60
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    How come there is no "No Speculation" warning in the thread title ?
    Is it the new normal that it is now OK to acknowledge we know who is behind this tragedy ?


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  • #61
    Negative_G
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    ***No speculation - See mod warning post #1***

    A matter of time until this appears.


  • #62
    [Deleted User]
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    wakka12 wrote: »
    Link about armed robbery gone wrong? Reading sky news right now and they say it was a deliberate attack on two police officers by a known criminal

    Do people not read the linked articles any more and just read the titles before jumping in?

    In the OP -

    http://www.rte.ie/news/world/2017/0420/869121-paris-shooting/
    However three police sources said that the shooting could have been an attempt at an armed robbery.


  • #63
    Westeros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭Westeros


    Now appears second police officer is not dead. 1 dead and 2 injured.


  • #64
    Il Fascista
    Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Il Fascista


    I can only imagine how much chaos there will be in Europe in the future. All in the name of virtue!


  • #65
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Il Fascista wrote: »
    I can only imagine how much chaos there will be in Europe in the future. All in the name of virtue signalling!

    FYP.


  • #66
    Exeggcute
    Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭Exeggcute


    AP: French anti-terrorist prosecutors have opened an investigation, confirming that the motive is believed to have been terrorism, and the attacker was known to the intelligence services, security sources said. They added that he had been flagged as a serious threat to national security.


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  • #67
    C Montgomery Gurns II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭C Montgomery Gurns II


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Do people not read the linked articles any more and just read the titles before jumping in?

    In the OP -

    http://www.rte.ie/news/world/2017/0420/869121-paris-shooting/

    Official statement has said the assailant pulled up in a car, got out, and opened fire on heavily armed officers. Which unless he was very disappointed with his haul from the robbery is not very bank robber- esque behavior.

    You must be devastated the French didn't go to the Merkel Media School.


  • #68
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Ah "known to intelligence agencies" again.


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »
    Official statement has said the assailant pulled up in a car, got out, and opened fire on heavily armed officers. Which unless he was very disappointed with his haul from the robbery is not very bank robber- esque behavior.

    You must be devastated the French didn't go to the Merkel Media School.

    What exactly does that have to do with reading something RTÉ has said, stating 3 French police sources have said...?


  • #70
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »
    Official statement has said the assailant pulled up in a car, got out, and opened fire on heavily armed officers. Which unless he was very disappointed with his haul from the robbery is not very bank robber- esque behavior.

    You must be devastated the French didn't go to the Merkel Media School.

    You seem to have everything figured out lad.


  • #71
    CoolHandBandit
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 263 ✭✭CoolHandBandit


    Il Fascista wrote: »
    I can only imagine how much chaos there will be in Europe in the future. All in the name of virtue!

    We are at the beginning of a very long battle with these people. They are among us and we haven't got the political will to rid the continent of these savages. Le Pen could change all that, we will see.


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  • #72
    Beyondgone
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    WinnyThePoo wrote: »
    You seem to have everything figured out lad.

    Well it isn't rocket science tbh. Have you been under a rock for the last few years? :confused:


  • #73
    C Montgomery Gurns II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭C Montgomery Gurns II


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What exactly does that have to do with reading something RTÉ has said, stating 3 French police sources have said...?

    Because I find it bizarre that people with left wing opinions


    a- hope upon hope it isn't anything to do with radical Islam so they can finger wag and get some sort of told you so over the rest of us

    and

    b- refuse to apply critical thinking. An inability to ask yourself just how unlikely it would be that somebody would pull an armed robbery on the Champs Elysee during election season in what must be the biggest security clampdown since the Euros last summer.


  • #74
    BoatMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,702 ✭✭✭✭BoatMad


    CptMackey wrote: »
    Scary stuff. Only a matter of time till some thing happens here

    why


  • #75
    STB.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭STB.


    Reuters reporting that he didnt act alone. Looking for some other lad who travelled from Brussels.


  • #76
    Ulysses Gaze
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    CoolHandBandit wrote: »
    We are at the beginning of a very long battle with these people. They are among us and we haven't got the political will to rid the continent of these savages. Le Pen could change all that, we will see.

    If she is going to do that she'll have to win the election, rid the higher French courts of all Left Wing judges and pull France out of the EU and ECHR.

    To start.

    That won't be easy to do.


  • #77
    Beyondgone
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Ah "known to intelligence agencies" again.

    The Intelligence community are very hot on bank robbers these days. Seeing as how crap they were on terrorists, it's only right they aim for easier prey.


  • #78
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »
    Because I find it bizarre that people with left wing opinions


    a- hope upon hope it isn't anything to do with radical Islam so they can finger wag and get some sort of told you so over the rest of us

    and

    b- refuse to apply critical thinking. An inability to ask yourself just how unlikely it would be that somebody would pull an armed robbery on the Champs Elysee during election season in what must be the biggest security clampdown since the Euros last summer.

    And again... You haven't exactly said what any of this has to do with reading what RTÉ have said police sources have claimed...?


  • #79
    Dublin Pintman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 109 ✭✭Dublin Pintman


    BoatMad wrote: »
    why

    Why not? It happened in Sweden. What did they ever do the Islamic world?


  • #80
    youreadthat
    Registered Users Posts: 761 ✭✭✭youreadthat


    Must be right-wing English nationalists again. The Guardian told me they're the real danger.


  • #81
    C Montgomery Gurns II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭C Montgomery Gurns II


    Deleted User wrote: »
    And again... You haven't exactly said what any of this has to do with reading what RTÉ have said police sources have claimed...?

    An official was interviewed a few minutes ago on France 24.


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  • #82
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    C Montgomery Gurns II wrote: »
    An official was interviewed a few minutes ago on France 24.

    You're not answering my question, are you?


  • #83
    Beyondgone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    Deleted User wrote: »
    And again... You haven't exactly said what any of this has to do with reading what RTÉ have said police sources have claimed...?

    RTE as your source? Lol. You need to lift the head lad. Most Boneyarsedbogmen are fairly copped on. Do you only get to foot the turf?


  • #84
    BoatMad
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    Dublin Pintman wrote: »
    Why not? It happened in Sweden. What did they ever do the Islamic world?

    They have taken in considerable numbers of refugees , we have not , Sweden also has long standing assimilation issues and ghettoisation of certain immigrants

    its not all peachy in that socialist wonderland

    disclaimer : worked there some years ago


  • #85
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    BoatMad wrote: »
    why

    Because the society that these people want and Irish society are like chalk and cheese. Ireland has hundreds of 'jihadis' within its borders, literally.Ireland had the second highest number of citizens to travel to fight in Syria out all EU countries. If it can happen to a country thats not interfering with war in Syria or ME such as Sweden then why would you think Ireland is immune from this occurring? Theres nothing stop a lone wolf attack here, which can be extremely devastating ( such as in Nice)

    A highly coordinated attack such as in Paris in 2015 is extremely unlikely in Ireland though


  • #86
    Dublin Pintman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 109 ✭✭Dublin Pintman


    BoatMad wrote: »
    They have taken in considerable numbers of refugees , we have not , Sweden also has long standing assimilation issues and ghettoisation of certain immigrants

    its not all peachy in that socialist wonderland

    disclaimer : worked there some years ago

    You're preaching to the choir when it comes to the multicultural utopia of Sweden...my point is, if a county that worships Muslim migrants as much as Sweden can still get Trucked, then what's to say it won't happen here?


  • #87
    CoolHandBandit
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 263 ✭✭CoolHandBandit


    youreadthat wrote: »
    Must be right-wing English nationalists again. The Guardian told me they're the real danger.

    Mentally ill, Russian, right winger i heard. Don't mention the religion that never causes hassle whatever you do.


  • #88
    greencap
    Registered Users Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    This just in.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK67o8oI7wE

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



  • #89
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    Beyondgone wrote: »
    RTE as your source? Lol. You need to lift the head lad. Most Boneyarsedbogmen are fairly copped on. Do you only get to foot the turf?

    Dismiss source... Check
    Try and Slag off posters username...check
    Exert the idea that you know more than anybody.. Check


  • #90
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Mod: There's two threads open on this and merging them will cause some very strange nesting I suspect, so I'm closing this one as the other was started first (albeit by one minute!).


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