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| 2017 Champs-Elysee Shooting Thread | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 20 2017, 03:40 PM (102 Views) | |
| 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, 06:15 PM Post #31 |
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--"He came out with a Kalashnikov and started shooting" - a witness describes the moment a gunman opened fire on the streets of #Paris (Sky News - 20 April 2017) |
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| Webster | Apr 20 2017, 06:19 PM Post #32 |
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--Hollande: "We are convinced the path our investigation will take will reveal this attack was terrorist-related" (Sky News - 20 April 2017) |
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| AvishaWay | Apr 20 2017, 08:07 PM Post #33 |
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Now do a meme with white men killing people. Oh wait, that's not in line with your agenda...Because that's about five times more frequent. |
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| Webster | Apr 21 2017, 01:22 AM Post #34 |
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What agenda? Oh, you mean the one calling one Mohammedans for (a) their refusal to assimilate into the broader Western culture, that agenda? Or is it (b)calling them - and their Western apologists - for their treatment of women and ethnic/religious minorities and gay people, that agenda? |
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| Webster | Apr 21 2017, 08:51 AM Post #35 |
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....from the Daily Telegraph live-feed.... (Daily Telegraph) Champs-Elysees reopening after gun attack --Paris' iconic Champs-Elysees boulevard is reopen and picking up its usual early morning routine on Friday morning. Municipal workers in white hygiene suits washed down the sidewalk where Thursday night's attack took place. Delivery trucks were making their rounds. Traffic was going up and down the famous tree-lined street and police barriers have been taken down. |
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| Webster | Apr 21 2017, 08:54 AM Post #36 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Malcolm Turnbull and Mike Pence offer condolences --Australia's prime minister has offered his country's prayers for the police officers who were shot in Paris and urged Australians in Europe to be wary. Speaking to Australia's Seven Network, Malcolm Turnbull urged Australian travellers to check for security warnings on the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website. He said: "Everywhere - but especially in Europe at the moment - pay close attention to your surroundings." Mr Turnbull said that regional security will be among the topics he will discuss with US vice president Mike Pence, who will arrive in Sydney on Friday. Mr Pence also commented on the shooting, saying it is "latest reminder that terrorism can strike anywhere, anytime." He said that the US "will not relent in our effort to end terrorism." During a speech to business leaders in Jakarta, Indonesia, Mr Pence said that the people of Paris have "our condolences and our prayers." He said the US will continue to cooperate with the Indonesian government to fight against terrorism. |
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| Webster | Apr 21 2017, 08:56 AM Post #37 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Le Pen & Fillon Cancel Plans --David Chazan, in Paris, writes: Marine Le Pen and François Fillon have cancelled their travel plans and will make statements later this morning. Ms Le Pen is to speak at 10 am local time (0900 BST) and Mr Macron at midday (1100 BST). President Hollande is expected to speak after chairing a meeting of his security cabinet beginning at 8am local time (0700 BST ). Police searched the suspected gunman’s home in the Paris suburb of Chelles overnight. His identity has been verified and confirmed by police and prosecutors but they do not want to make it public because they say they are still determining whether he acted alone or with accomplices wand do not want to compromise the investigation. However, he has been named as Karim Cheurfi, 39, a French national who was on the terrorist watch list and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2003 for the attempted murder of three men, including two policemen. The sentence was reduced to five years in 2005. Of the four leading candidates in the presidential election, which begins on Sunday with the first-round vote, Ms Le Pen and Mr Fillon have been campaigning strongly on law-and-order platforms, both promising to get tough on terrorism. Ms Le Pen has said that if she is elected, she would deport all foreign nationals on the terrorism watch list. Mr Macron and the far-Left candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, may struggle to convince voters of their security and defence credentials. Mr Macron said in a tweet that, if elected, he would form an anti-Isil task force placed directly under the president's authority. According to the latest Elabe poll for BFM TV, taken just before the attack, Mr Macron pulled into the lead, on 24 per cent, well ahead of Ms Le Pen, on 21.5 per cent, Mr Fillon with 20 per cent, and Mr Mélenchon on 19.5 per cent. The Front National did not achieve sustained boosts in popularity after previous attacks. |
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| Webster | Apr 21 2017, 08:58 AM Post #38 |
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![]() (Daily Telegraph) Face of gunman revealed --The first picture of the gunman, 39-year-old French national Karim Cheurfi, from an east Paris suburb, has been put out by AP on the condition that its source is not revealed. |
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| Webster | Apr 21 2017, 09:02 AM Post #39 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Second suspect 'hands himself in' --A significant update from David Chazan in Paris. He reports that French sources say the man flagged up by Belgian authorities in connection with the attack has turned himself in to Belgian police. "The man in the wanted notice issued by Belgian authorities presented himself to a police station in Antwerp," ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told AFP. Three people described as “close to the attacker” are in custody, French police sources said. |
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| Webster | Apr 21 2017, 09:03 AM Post #40 |
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![]() (Daily Telegraph) 'Unity that must prevail' --Speaking at the Elysee Palace in Paris, French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: "We must never yield to division. "It is obscurantism and intolerance that must be fought, and more than ever, it is unity that must prevail. He appealed to people to show a spirit of responsibility and a sense of dignity." |
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| Webster | Apr 21 2017, 09:06 AM Post #41 |
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![]() (Daily Telegrpah) Le Pen: 'It is time to stop being naive' Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has said France should immediately reinstate border checks and expel foreigners who are on the watch lists of intelligence services. Reacting to Thursday night's killing of a police officer in an attack claimed by Islamic State, Le Pen, who has been campaigning on a hardline anti-EU, anti-immigration platform, urged the Socialist government to carry out immediately these measures that are included in her campaign manifesto. She called for "a clear head and a firm grip" in the wake of the Champs-Elysees gun attack that put the focus back on one of the main themes of her election campaign for the French presidency: France's fight against Islamic extremism. Speaking on RFI radio, Le Pen said: "It is time to stop being naive." One of the key questions heading into Sunday's first-round vote is whether the attack on Thursday night that killed a police officer and injured two others could bump up the vote for her program of stepped-up security and border controls, more resources for police and tougher treatment of radicals listed on the government's database of people regarded as potential threats to national security. |
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| Webster | Apr 21 2017, 09:08 AM Post #42 |
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(Daily Telegraph) Three Family Members Detained The Paris prosecutors' office leading the investigation into the Champs-Elysees gun attack says police have detained for questioning three family members of the suspected gunman, who was shot and killed. The prosecutors' office stressed that questioning family members is routine in such cases, as investigators seek to determine whether the gunman was acting alone, where he got his weapons and other details. The Islamic State group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack that killed one police officers and injured two others on the iconic Parisian boulevard Thursday night. Meanwhile, the Belgian man who had been linked by some as an accomplice to the Paris terror attack turned himself in, but authorities said there was no link. A prosecutor in Belgium's Antwerp said: "That man came to police late yesterday after he saw himself appear on social media as terror suspect No. 1 relating to yesterday's facts." The prosecutor, who declined to be identified because the investigation was ongoing, said the man had nothing to do with the attack. "He was not part of a terrorism investigation." Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens told VRT network early this morning that "at this moment we have no information about Belgian links." |
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