Nice - Bastille day mod warning post 1

Berserker · 14-07-2016 10:37pm #1

Anyone else watching the news from Nice? Some lunatic drove a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille day. Several people are dead, according to various media sources.

mod: I've had to remove a video showing terrible things. Please don't post anything like that. Consider the fact that people are not prepared to deal with videos of the results of an attack.

bilston · 14-07-2016 10:40pm

Berserker wrote: »

Anyone else watching the news from Nice? Some lunatic drove a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille day. Several people are dead, according to various media sources.

Sky reporting a senior official in Nice talking about "dozens dead".

Also qualifying that by saying it is early days in terms of whether it is deliberate or not.

Horrific

bilston · 14-07-2016 10:40pm

Berserker wrote: »

Anyone else watching the news from Nice? Some lunatic drove a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille day. Several people are dead, according to various media sources.

Sky reporting a senior official in Nice talking about "dozens dead".

Also qualifying that by saying it is early days.

Horrific

BobbyPropane · 14-07-2016 10:41pm

30 - 50 dead

Berserker · 14-07-2016 10:41pm

BobbyPropane wrote: »

30 - 50 dead

Shocking stuff.

GLaDOS · 14-07-2016 10:43pm

https://www.rt.com/news/351086-panic-nice-france-crowd/

RT saying "unconfirmed reports of gunfire"

Hopefully not...

refusetolose · 14-07-2016 10:44pm

cops gun fighting with dudes in truck

philstar · 14-07-2016 10:47pm

looks like french security droped their guard after the euros's

bilston · 14-07-2016 10:48pm

Picture on Sky News of a lorry riddled with bullets which suggests police were trying to stop the vehicle.

BobbyPropane · 14-07-2016 10:49pm

Shooters are hold up in a local restaurant.

bilston · 14-07-2016 10:49pm

French TV says at least 30 killed.

Jaysus

skywanderer · 14-07-2016 10:51pm

Coming to a neighborhood near you soon, if you watched Prime Time tonight it made for shocking viewing.

alchemist33 · 14-07-2016 10:51pm

My first thought was that it might have been like the "accident" in Glasgow a couple of years ago, but apparently not. Shocking stuff

TallGlass · 14-07-2016 10:51pm

Hopefully, an isolated incident.

Berserker · 14-07-2016 10:52pm

skywanderer wrote: »

Coming to a neighborhood near you soon, if you watched Prime Time tonight it made for shocking viewing.

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISIS have claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

skywanderer · 14-07-2016 10:52pm

TallGlass wrote: »

Hopefully, an isolated incident.

A daily occurrence unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks#2016

Strumms · 14-07-2016 10:53pm

Shocking... Nice is like a home away from home for me and have a good few friends down there... thankfully all coming back as ok thankfully but still..... the world is just such a crap ****ed up place these days...

TallGlass · 14-07-2016 10:53pm

Berserker wrote: »

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISIS have claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

Seem to be heavily integrated into there society.

Beefy78 · 14-07-2016 10:53pm

Jesus. Some horrible photos on social media. Nice is one of my favourite places in the World, I was only there a week ago. Urgh.

failinis · 14-07-2016 10:55pm

BBC version http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36800730

A lorry has struck a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city of Nice, media reports and witnesses say.
The incident took place on the Promenade des Anglais during a firework display, the reports said.
One image on Twitter showed about a dozen people lying on the street, some being tended to.
The local prefecture has urged people in the area to remain indoors, calling the incident "an attack".
Some reports spoke of shots being exchanged between police and the occupants of the lorry but these have not been confirmed.
Social media video showed people running through the streets in panic following the incident.
A journalist with the Nice Matin newspaper reported from the scene that there was "a lot of blood and without doubt many injured".
An Agence France-Presse reporter said the incident took place as the firework display was ending, adding: "We saw people hit and bits of debris flying around."
Another image on Twitter showed a white lorry stopped in the middle of the promenade with damage to its front, and four police officers observing it while taking cover behind a palm tree.

Strumms · 14-07-2016 10:55pm

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Shooters are hold up in a local restaurant.

source ?

Lady is a tramp · 14-07-2016 10:55pm

Fuuuuck just popped up on my phone (Independent app). At least 30 killed, and local news is reporting that it's being treated as an attack.

With those numbers involved, I'm guessing it was an attack alright rather than an accident, however I wouldn't give much credit to ISIS claiming responsibility for it. They tend to claim all major tragedies!

BobbyPropane · 14-07-2016 10:56pm

Strumms wrote: »

source ?

Journalist on twitter:

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/753706633805586432

RobertKK · 14-07-2016 10:57pm

CNN showing a picture of a lot of people lying on the ground, it put a chill down my spine.

The poor French people.

BobbyPropane · 14-07-2016 10:58pm

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Journalist on twitter:

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/753706633805586432

Sorry ignore that, realised there it's that right wing EDL fella..... apologies

YFlyer · 14-07-2016 10:59pm

Berserker wrote: »

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISISthave claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

RTE plus 1 on now

speedboatchase · 14-07-2016 10:59pm

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Journalist on twitter:

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/753706633805586432

Tommy Robinson is the far-right former leader of the English Defence League. I'd take his tweets with a pinch of salt for now.

skywanderer · 14-07-2016 11:00pm

Berserker wrote: »

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISIS have claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

It has nothing to do with France, rather to do with Islamic Demographics and once their population goes above 10% and higher terrorism and trouble are regular occurrences. France has the largest population of Muslims in Europe. France has lax security plus a huge demograph of self-hating liberal SJW who brand any objection to immigration or terrorism to be Racist. This is a problem of Frances own making; the chickens have come home to roost for the French with their ultra-left wing social policies.

RobertKK · 14-07-2016 11:00pm

Lady is a tramp wrote: »

Fuuuuck just popped up on my phone (Independent app). At least 30 killed, and local news is reporting that it's being treated as an attack.

With those numbers involved, I'm guessing it was an attack alright rather than an accident, however I wouldn't give much credit to ISIS claiming responsibility for it. They tend to claim all major tragedies!

Same I was planning on some light entertainment and then on the Independent app the news popped up.

We are all at one with the French nation, hope we can do more to stop these senseless attacks on innocents.

10s of people killed, hundred injured.

The_Valeyard · 14-07-2016 11:00pm

****ing hell. This is horrible.

RIP to all the victims. Such a beautiful place, only recently there. This is shocking. Wonderful locals and great atmosphere during the euros.

Shane St. · 14-07-2016 11:01pm

awful news

Strumms · 14-07-2016 11:01pm

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Sorry ignore that, realised there it's that right wing EDL fella..... apologies

Yeah... I'd guess knowing where the Bufalo Grill is that if it was the case it would be on the news already...

according to sky news the driver is confirmed dead... If it was multiple shooters at this stage think we'd know... still so ****ing tragic...

14-07-2016 11:02pm

philstar wrote: »

looks like french security droped their guard after the euros's

How do you expect security services to be able to protect 100% of the country 100% of the time. It's impossible!

failinis · 14-07-2016 11:02pm

RobertKK wrote: »

CNN showing a picture of a lot of people lying on the ground, it put a chill down my spine.

The poor French people.

I know people are just recording what they see but I seen a few pics on twitter of dead people, that if I knew them, I could have identified which is not the way a concerned family/friend should find out or even see.
What a horrible event - reports of shots on twitter, hopefully the police stop it, and hopefully that lorry is not rigged to blow up once opened.

FizzleSticks · 14-07-2016 11:03pm

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Penny Tration · 14-07-2016 11:05pm

Christ, not again

those poor, poor people. What a horrifying way to go

RIP

14-07-2016 11:06pm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnW4EwHWcAAL3Vc.jpg

lawlolawl · 14-07-2016 11:08pm

skywanderer wrote: »

It has nothing to do with France, rather to do with Islamic Demographics and once their population goes above 10% and higher terrorism and trouble are regular occurrences. France has the largest population of Muslims in Europe. France has lax security plus a huge demograph of self-hating liberal SJW who brand any objection to immigration or terrorism to be Racist. This is a problem of Frances own making; the chickens have come home to roost for the French with their ultra-left wing social policies.

They didn't have any domestic terrorism so they decided to import it.

These attacks are becoming far too frequent. Whatever we are doing as a whole isn't working.

Sand · 14-07-2016 11:10pm

Berserker wrote: »

Missed it, can you elaborate? ISIS have claimed responsibility. What is it about France that they hate so much?

I think its the French invasion of Iraq in 2003. That is what sparked off ISIS and Islamic terrorism. So I hear.

Harry Palmr · 14-07-2016 11:10pm

Well it never takes long for a massacre to be turned into a political football on AH.

Omackeral · 14-07-2016 11:11pm

lawlolawl wrote: »

They didn't have any domestic terrorism so they decided to import it.

These attacks are becoming far too frequent. Whatever we are doing as a whole isn't working.

We? Like the West?

Lackey · 14-07-2016 11:11pm

Sand wrote: »

I think its the French invasion of Iraq in 2003. That is what sparked off ISIS and Islamic terrorism. So I hear.

The people on the street murdered tonight didn't invade anywhere

14-07-2016 11:12pm

Passerby video. Truely sickening.

*removed*

Please don't post videos like this again

ClovenHoof · 14-07-2016 11:13pm

ISIS just kill anything. They are like Pitbulls with AIDS.

There was a piece in the New York Times last year about how they take a hyperactive amphetmine and often going on killing rampages among themselves when they run out of enemies.

Its like something out of the Middle Ages meets that movie Altered States from the 80s.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly · 14-07-2016 11:13pm

Hopefully these lads don't find a supply of anthrax.

Sand · 14-07-2016 11:14pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Well it never takes long for a massacre to be turned into a political football on AH.

Whole wars are turned into political debating points in grander arenas than AH.

Lackey wrote: »

The people on the street murdered tonight didn't invade anywhere

That would imply that ISIS simply do not care about what people who are concerned about the legality of the Iraqi war care about. That would challenge a lot of narcissistic introspection. So it must be rejected.

BobbyPropane · 14-07-2016 11:14pm

Lackey wrote: »

The people on the street murdered tonight didn't invade anywhere

tbf either were the terrorist involved with the taliban/hussein/nuclear weapons/al qaeda before their families were killed by American/European bombings

speedboatchase · 14-07-2016 11:15pm

ClovenHoof wrote: »

ISIS just kill anything. They are like Pitbulls with AIDS.

Actually they're very specific about who they kill, and why. This whole narrative that they're simply maniacs with no ideology is harmful.

Amirani · 14-07-2016 11:15pm

Twitter is great for up to the minute news for things like this, but the amount of graphic pictures and images is a little sickening. Why would you want to tweet something like that?

Sand · 14-07-2016 11:15pm

BobbyPropane wrote: »

tbf either were the terrorist involved with the taliban/hussein/nuclear weapons/al qaeda before their families were killed by American/European bombings

How many of the attackers in Paris 2015 or London 2007 lost family members to American/European bombings?

Honestly - do you even know who is attacking you?

You are dealing with an evil on par with the Dirlewanger brigade and you are trying to explain their hatred, violence and murder. There is no explanation. You kill them. You bury them. And you continue on.

ambro25 · 14-07-2016 11:15pm

lawlolawl wrote: »

They didn't have any domestic terrorism so they decided to import it.

These attacks are becoming far too frequent. Whatever we are doing as a whole isn't working.

France has had domestic terrorism since the 60s, middle eastern terrorism since the 70s, northern african terrorism since the 90s.

And it did not invade Iraq in 2003. Remember the "freedom fries"?

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