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| 2017 Champs-Elysee Shooting Thread | |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 03:40 PM Post #1 |
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Sky News reporting that a French police officer has been shot and killed in an apparent terrorist act.....quoting Sky:
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 04:48 PM Post #16 |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 04:53 PM Post #17 |
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![]() (Sky News) A witness to the shooting has given an account of the attack. --Named only as Chelloug said: "There was a police van and the guy came in an Audi A80, an old grey Audi. "He parked just behind the van and he got out with a Kalashnikov and I heard six gunshots. I thought they were firecrackers, because we all looked around the road and there was no-one. "In fact, he was hidden behind the van and shooting at the police. I think he hit a policeman. As soon as the policeman opened the door of the van, he fell, I think." |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:00 PM Post #18 |
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![]() (Sky News) The witness added: "It was a terrorist. He came out with a Kalashnikov and started shooting, but he could've shot us on the pavement and killed more people with a spray of shots - but he targeted the policemen and fortunately there were the policemen who killed him." |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:00 PM Post #19 |
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(Sky News) Sky News' Mark White said all the indications are that the shooting was a targeted terror attack Police issue a warrant for a second suspect in the shooting who arrived from Belgium by train. |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:07 PM Post #20 |
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![]() (Sky News) Forensics officers search a car at the scene. |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:21 PM Post #21 |
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(Sky News) The attacker, who was shot dead at the scene, had been flagged as an extremist, according to police. French presidential candidates Marine Le Pen and Francois Fillon have suspended their campaigns in the wake of the attack. |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:24 PM Post #22 |
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(Daily Telegraph) How terrorism in France is having a huge impact on presidential election --While the motives of the Champs-Elysées gunman remained unconfirmed, the timing just three days before the first round of presidential elections and during a prime time TV "debate" between all 11 official candidates clearly raises the question that extremists are seeking to influence the tone of the debate. Already in a state of emergency, France's security apparatus has been on maximum alert in recent days. Intelligence agents have been in a race against time to shut down clear and present threats to the personal security of several of the main candidates, reportedly most prominent among them François Fillon, the conservative candidate. Two men were arrested in Marseille on Tuesday with guns and bomb materials, and were in the final stages of preparing "several" attacks, according to French reports. The arrests coincided with a toughening of the discourse of Marine Le Pen, the far-Right Front National candidate, who gave her hardest-line speeches of the campaign in Paris on Monday and then again in Marseille on Wednesday night. In those she insisted that the past two administrations, both Left and Right, had failed to take the Islamist threat seriously. The Paris terror attacks, she said, would not have occurred had she been in power as several of the assailants who killed 130 took the migrant route to enter the country illegally. She threatened to effectively shut French borders, promising to draft in army reservists to do so, placing a temporary "moratorium" on legal immigration and then only allowing 10,000 in a year after that. Although polls suggest Ms Le Pen is on track to come in the top two of Sunday's first round vote, along with centrist Emmanuel Macron, political analysts have suggested that Ms Le Pen has been losing steam in recent days and that her campaign has failed to capitalise on early leads. She will surely seek to claw back support after this latest attack by insisting that France requires a more authoritarian regime. She commands signifiant support from within the French police, which lost an officer on Thursday night. -Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/20/terrorism-france-having-huge-impact-presidential-election/ |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:26 PM Post #23 |
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(Sky News) French President Francois Hollande says he is convinced the Paris attack was terror-related. |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:28 PM Post #24 |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:28 PM Post #25 |
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![]() (Sky News) Mr Hollande, pictured here holding emergency talks following the attack, says the security forces will be on high alert ahead of the election. |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:53 PM Post #26 |
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(Sky News) Islamic State says it carried out the Paris attack. |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 05:54 PM Post #27 |
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--BREAKING: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed a Paris police officer. (Associated Press, 20 April 2017) (Sky News) The terror group has identified the attacker naming him as Abu Yousif, the Belgian. |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 06:00 PM Post #28 |
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![]() --Unfortunately, this number will never change much until the left wakes up and realizes that Islam is at war with us. Poor Paris.. (Steve Hirsch, 20 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 06:03 PM Post #29 |
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(Sky News) A detailed account of the attack has been given by Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre Henri Brandet. --He said: "Shortly before 9pm (8pm UK time) at the level of 102 Champs Elysees, a vehicle stopped next to a van of public order and traffic of the police prefecture, a police van which was stationary with officers inside the vehicle and on the pavement. "Immediately, a man exited his vehicle and opened fire on the officers, fatally wounding one. The man then tried to run along the pavement, aiming at police officers. He managed to wound two, very seriously. "Two were wounded and others returned fire, killing the assailant. The neighbourhood was immediately on shut down, with security forces and emergency services hurrying to the scene to secure the area." |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 06:13 PM Post #30 |
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![]() (Sky News) France has been under a state of emergency since 2015 following a series of deadly terror attacks. |
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