Incident at Notre Dame, Paris

IvyTheTerrible · 06-06-2017 03:43PM #1

French radio is reporting that police are dealing with an incident at Notre Dame and advising people to avoid the area.

Hopefully it's just something minor.

Armchair Andy · 06-06-2017 03:45PM

This **** needs a megathread. AH reads like a redtop these days.

06-06-2017 03:45PM

First reports say someone tried to assault a cop and was shot dead. Fingers crossed.

Richard Hillman · 06-06-2017 03:49PM

Strange. I was there recently and the place is full of armed military and police. You wouldnt last long if you tried something there. Don't think this is the usual.

The_Valeyard · 06-06-2017 03:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

First reports say someone tried to assault a cop and was shot dead. Fingers crossed.

Which a hammer it seems. But is alive, as is the perpetrator.

Could be anything at the moment.

Last week a Muslim police officer was attacked at the arche de triomphe

The wait and see and blame game?

spurious · 06-06-2017 03:53PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

The wait and see and blame game?

The four letter goons will claim responsibility either way.

AzcuzCoz · 06-06-2017 03:53PM

French police say they have shot a man who began attacking a police officer at the Notre Dame cathedral. There are also more unconfirmed reports that a number of people are wounded.

More to follow...

The_Kew_Tour · 06-06-2017 03:55PM

Every
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Day
Now

ceadaoin. · 06-06-2017 03:55PM

Oh great.

Paris has changed a lot IMO. The last time I was there was in summer of 2015, we went in just for the day because we were at Disneyland. It didnt feel the same and honestly I just didn't feel safe. Couldn't wait to get out of there. This was before the Bataclan attacks. I can't see myself taking my daughter there again anytime soon.

gramar · 06-06-2017 03:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

First reports say someone tried to assault a cop and was shot dead. Fingers crossed.

....yeah, hopefully they are dead....

silverharp · 06-06-2017 03:55PM

A Lutheran with a hammer apparently, damn Lutherans

ThisRegard · 06-06-2017 03:56PM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Every
****ing
Day
Now

Might have been lads unhappy with the parking arrangements around the church and nothing to do with religion.

AzcuzCoz · 06-06-2017 03:56PM

Now the BBC say that Paris police have established a cordon around the cathedral after the incident in which a number of shots were fired.

People reportedly seen running in huge numbers away from the cathedral area.

Hector Savage · 06-06-2017 03:57PM

Its probably nothing, the media is trigger happy and jumping on any story.

xabi · 06-06-2017 03:58PM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Every
****ing
Day
Now

This is the problem with modern day communications, half the world probably know something happened in Paris and instantly jump to conclusions thus spreading panic and hysteria.

AzcuzCoz · 06-06-2017 03:59PM

Police in the French capital warned people to stay away from the site, on the Ile de Cite island on the River Seine, via a Twitter message.

AzcuzCoz · 06-06-2017 04:03PM

The assailant's condition is as yet unknown, but it is believed he attacked a number of police officers on the scene with a very large hammer, possibly a sledgehammer, or an axe. Eyewitnesses reported three people lying motionless on the ground. Another woman said that she heard about 25 loud bangs.

Tourists subsequently flocked for cover.

ThisRegard · 06-06-2017 04:03PM

Doesn't look that big an incident on France 24. Kay Burley miking every bit of fluid out of it on Sky News along with the obligatory phone call to someone over there with her dumb questions about how that person is feeling and other nonsense.

In fact France 24 are finished with the story for now and have moved on to another but Sky are replaying bits of the stupid phone call again.

Copper_pipe · 06-06-2017 04:04PM

Girlfriend is over in Lourdes for the week volunteering. Dont want to text her saying about whats happening in Paris as I know she'll freak out

AzcuzCoz · 06-06-2017 04:06PM

The attacker was neutralised and the front of the building remains sealed off. A picture from the scene:

notredame.jpg?strip=all&w=852&quality=100

pickarooney · 06-06-2017 04:06PM

AzcuzCoz wrote: »

The assailant's condition is as yet unknown, but it is believed he attacked a number of police officers on the scene with a very large hammer, possibly a sledgehammer, or an axe. Eyewitnesses reported three people lying motionless on the ground. Another woman said that she heard about 25 loud bangs.

Tourists subsequently flocked for cover.

****ing Thor up to his ****e again.

Glenster · 06-06-2017 04:07PM

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Girlfriend is over in Lourdes for the week volunteering. Dont want to text her saying about whats happening in Paris as I know she'll freak out

Jaysus, Dublin's as close to Paris as Lourdes is.

The_Kew_Tour · 06-06-2017 04:07PM

xabi wrote: »

This is the problem with modern day communications, half the world probably know something happened in Paris and instantly jump to conclusions thus spreading panic and hysteria.

The sad thing that while some are false, most seem be true these days

FrancieBrady · 06-06-2017 04:07PM

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Girlfriend is over in Lourdes for the week volunteering. Dont want to text her saying about whats happening in Paris as I know she'll freak out

How far away from an 'incident' does she need to be to not 'freak'?

ThisRegard · 06-06-2017 04:07PM

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Girlfriend is over in Lourdes for the week volunteering. Dont want to text her saying about whats happening in Paris as I know she'll freak out

They're about 8 hours apart. That's like someone checking up on relatives in Kerry after what happened in London the weekend.

Mint Sauce · 06-06-2017 04:10PM

Witness on the BBC speaking to the studio. About 500 in the Cathedral. Police treating it as terrorism.

Hector Savage · 06-06-2017 04:11PM

ThisRegard wrote: »

They're about 8 hours apart. That's like someone checking up on relatives in Kerry after what happened in London the weekend.

This is an example of the absolute nonsense Hysteria this creates ..

edit - not your post, sorry, the other one linking Lourdes and Paris..

RustyNut · 06-06-2017 04:13PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

This is an example of the absolute nonsense Hysteria this creates ..

That's what they are after. That's assuming that it's not just some nutter with a hammer.

AzcuzCoz · 06-06-2017 04:17PM

People trying not to panic now.

Police have opened up a counter-terrorism investigation.

As for the Lourdes post, whenever a suicide bombing occurs in Baghdad, I immediately have to contact all my relatives and tell them to keep safe.

Jesus, pointless scaremongering.

gramar · 06-06-2017 04:18PM

AzcuzCoz wrote: »

People trying not to panic now.

Police have opened up a counter-terrorism investigation.

As for the Lourdes post, whenever a suicide bombing occurs in Baghdad, I immediately have to contact all my relatives and tell them to keep safe.

Jesus, pointless scaremongering.

Would they be your relatives in Athlone?

mad muffin · 06-06-2017 04:19PM

Shït. I better call my family back in Perth to let them know I'm ok

Incident at Notre Dame, Paris

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