Nice - Bastille day **mod warning post 1**

Its dead Jim

From reddit:

A truck has hit a large group of people in Nice, France at a fireworks show. There are 73 confirmed deaths.

Eyewitness reports suggest that gunfire was exchanged between Police and the driver. Earlier reports of a hostage situation are unsubstantiated, say the French Interior Minister.

keith16

failinis wrote: »

As far as I know, Boris is in France today (he was booed at his first appearance in his new role) and I presume he is still in France overnight - but unsure why people are bashing him before he has even opened his mouth.

He's opened his big, fat, lying mouth plenty.

vg88

Just saw a video on LL of the attack, god that was horrible. I feel like crying now. I feel so sorry for these people.

skywanderer

I just read an Interesting comment on Facebook, South America is the safest continent from Islamic terror as South of the United States its almost entirely Catholic with other Christian minorities and less than 1 million Muslims out of over 420+ million in Latin, Central and South America.

BorneTobyWilde

Deleted User wrote: »

The crowd were next to a public road, trucks drive on roads what could they ( the police) have done?

Usually traffic would be closed to roads with people on them. Like on St Patricks day. You should not be able to get close, should be stopped streets away.

LordSutch

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Boris straight into action. What a buffoon .
What a start for him .

What has Boris done or said about the attack ???

Gatling

Guns and ammo apparently found in the cab according to some media sources,

What a coward

Kermit.de.frog

moloner4 wrote: »

Just saw a video on LL of the attack, god that was horrible. I feel like crying now. I feel so sorry for these people.

I often wonder about the mindset of people that actively go looking for these videos and then say how horrible it is.

It can't be unseen so why look at it in the first place?

Amirani

skywanderer wrote: »

I just read an Interesting comment on Facebook, South America is the safest continent from Islamic terror as South of the United States its almost entirely Catholic with other Christian minorities and less than 1 million Muslims out of over 420+ million in Latin, Central and South America.

Depends how you define terrorism. Drug cartels and gangs can be fairly good at terrorising the population. You're still far safer in Europe than most of South and Central America.

failinis

keith16 wrote: »

He's opened his big, fat, lying mouth plenty.

He has not spoken at all (from what I have seen) on this attack, and whats he meant to say?
That he is shocked, horrified and disgusted at yet another attack on the French people, maybe UK will offer support in a few ways.
Don't shoot the guy before he has even done anything - and I don't even like the guy myself.

glenfieldman

Round up the North African uneducated c##ts and send them back


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Mental Mickey

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I often wonder about the mindset of people that actively go looking for these videos and then say how horrible it is.

It can't be unseen so why look at it in the first place.

People's insatiable appetite for this kind of thing never stops

RobertKK

CNN giving out about people posting pictures and videos of victims on social media.
They showed a picture themselves, but no one could be identified but they stopped showing it.

jos28

moloner4 wrote: »

Just saw a video on LL of the attack, god that was horrible. I feel like crying now. I feel so sorry for these people.

Such a horrible contrast to the happy scenes of French cities that we saw all throughout the Euros

Amirani

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Usually traffic would be closed to roads with people on them. Like on St Patricks day. You should not be able to get close, should be stopped streets away.

Stopped how? Should they try standing on front of a truck going 80km/hr?

BlaasForRafa

skywanderer wrote: »

I just read an Interesting comment on Facebook, South America is the safest continent from Islamic terror as South of the United States its almost entirely Catholic with other Christian minorities and less than 1 million Muslims out of over 420+ million in Latin, Central and South America.

Japan also has a relatively tiny muslim population and no desire to import any more.

BorneTobyWilde

Dead will be in 100's . Lets get real. Its a truck.

super_furry

They need to introduce internment if only to give themselves some breathing space. Put everyone currently under surveillance behind bars and start from there. This isn't pissy little small-time crime and the civil rights crowd can whinge, but while they whinge, people won't be murdered.

bigroad

73 dead.

BorneTobyWilde

LordSutch wrote: »

What has Boris done or said about the attack ???

Not a thing.
Just an opinion of him

super_furry

By the sounds of it, he didn't just drive into the crowds but reversed and drove over people for some time

Manach

Simply no words. Condolences to the victims' families.

Manic Moran

I agree with those who say that the police couldn't really do anything about the truck. However, it is worth noting (assuming it's an attack) that it wasn't a very good one. Can you imagine the carnage which would have resulted had they filled even a quarter of the truck with explosives to be set off after the drive through? We'd be talking hundreds dead, not scores. The fact that they apparently did not indicates a good likelihood that police monitoring made the acquisition and creation of such materials too risky. In such a case, the French security forces should be commended

my friend

Now more than ever, President Trump.

BorneTobyWilde

Amirani wrote: »

Stopped how? Should they try standing on front of a truck going 80km/hr?

Road block with police truck. Block the access streets leading to people.

super_furry

my friend wrote: »

Now more than ever, President Trump.

Yeah, that's help France.

Jesus wept.

questionmark?

Manic Moran wrote: »

I agree with those who say that the police couldn't really do anything about the truck. However, it is worth noting (assuming it's an attack) that it wasn't a very good one. Can you imagine the carnage which would have resulted had they filled even a quarter of the truck with explosives to be set off after the drive through? We'd be talking hundreds dead, not scores. The fact that they apparently did not indicates a good likelihood that police monitoring made the acquisition and creation of such materials too risky. In such a case, the French security forces should be commended

3rd major attack since last year in France. I'd say they need to do a better job!

73 dead so far RIP

Mental Mickey

my friend wrote: »

Now more than ever, President Trump.

STFU

Kermit.de.frog

Local spectator on Sky News moaning about having her shopping trip interupted.

alchemist33

super_furry wrote: »

They need to introduce internment if only to give themselves some breathing space. Put everyone currently under surveillance behind bars and start from there. This isn't pissy little small-time crime and the civil rights crowd can whinge, but while they whinge, people won't be murdered.

Did internment stop the IRA? No, it recruited loads of people to their cause who wouldn't otherwise have joined them. The same would happen in France.

retweet

So sad to keep seeing these threads pop up. RIP

Amirani

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Road block with police truck. Block the access streets leading to people.

How many roads? How many police trucks? Every single city in France? How big a truck do you build a barricade to prevent? Just Bastille Day or anytime there's crowds around? Just think about things.

If there was specific intelligence about a truck attack sure, otherwise, completely impossible to prevent this.

jos28

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Local spectator on Sky News moaning about having her shopping trip interupted.

I just heard that and couldn't believe what I was hearing

vg88

Guns and grenades found in the cabin, this was planed. Happened during the fireworks.
Those bastards planned this well for max carnage.

Does anyone know if he's still alive?

Larbre34

This sort of attack is beginning to wear a bit thin, understandably, with the French public.

A presidential election is due in mid-2017, and currently the very savvy Marine Le Pen of the National Front is ahead in the polls, unthinkable a decade ago.

If these attacks continue to drive moderate French voters to the right, the inevitable outcome is a far-right Government and the lid being lifted on anti-Muslim sentiment, escalating into reprisals, eviction, alienation, subjugation and eventually wholesale attacks on muslim neighbourhoods.

The only solution is for responsible Muslims to cleanse their own communities of extremists, not turn the blind eye. If they don't, mobs straight out of the 1930s will do it for them, and the next French Govt will be the ones turning the blind eye.

I dread to think where Europe, and the world frankly, will be in 10 years time, but not a single sign is positive.

stryker mcqueen

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Local spectator on Sky News moaning about having her shopping trip interupted.

I was just thinking that , seems kinda disrespectful "we did some lovely shopping and now I'm not bothered with it" cut her off ffs!!!!!

Rainman16

US Media now reporting. Minimum 73 dead.

BlaasForRafa

questionmark? wrote: »

3rd major attack since last year in France. I'd say they need to do a better job!

73 dead so far RIP

Trying to stop terrorists AND remain a democratic, free society that exists by the rule of law is not easy.

Cool_CM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Local spectator on Sky News moaning about having her shopping trip interupted.

Saved by having to go to the ladies'

Sky will put anybody on...

Gatling

moloner4 wrote: »

Does anyone know if he's still alive?

Shot dead by police I believe

LordSutch

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Not a thing.
Just an opinion of him

Lay off Boris, he's said nothing about the attack/tradgedy yet.

keith16

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Local spectator on Sky News moaning about having her shopping trip interupted.

Yeah, she was in Nice hoping to see a terrorist attack.

Amirani

questionmark? wrote: »

3rd major attack since last year in France. I'd say they need to do a better job!

Yeah, they should be everywhere all the time to stop everything. They should've known some random concert venue and restaurant would be attacked in Paris and the 6th largest city would be targeted by a truck. Terrible job they're doing.

Come on the ****, blaming completely the wrong people here.

RobertKK

Probably dead from a lot of nationalities, maybe some Irish we don't know.
I was watching the Tour de France a couple of days ago and some beautiful scenery, they said France is the number one tourist destination in the world.
So one can imagine people from many countries out on the promenade, happy and enjoying themselves and then here we are in a most unimaginable situation.
When I was younger we had the cold war, but what is going on these days is far more sinister.

Jimmy Garlic

Something has happened at the Eiffel tower too.

Cortina_MK_IV

moloner4 wrote: »

Guns and grenades found in the cabin, this was planed. Happened during the fireworks.
Those bastards planned this well for max carnage.

Does anyone know if he's still alive?

Police shot him.

keith16

LordSutch wrote: »

Lay off Boris, he's said nothing about the attack/tradgedy yet.

But you were asking why he was booed?

buckfasterer

The video of the truck driving into the crowd is so scary. Driving slowly then speeding up into people. **** this Islamic State bull****.

Manic Moran

Manic Moran wrote: »

I agree with those who say that the police couldn't really do anything about the truck. However, it is worth noting (assuming it's an attack) that it wasn't a very good one. Can you imagine the carnage which would have resulted had they filled even a quarter of the truck with explosives to be set off after the drive through? We'd be talking hundreds dead, not scores. The fact that they apparently did not indicates a good likelihood that police monitoring made the acquisition and creation of such materials too risky. In such a case, the French security forces should be commended

Are you being obtuse on purpose? You have to know better. It's France, where are they going to get a few hundred kilos of explosives without getting caught? A truck is perfect, it's just a truck, how are they going to track everyone who has access to a truck?

buckfasterer

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Something has happened at the Eiffel tower too.

There was a fireworks display but it malfunctioned.