Terrorist attacks throughout Europe

The desire is more to strike fear in the West. The victims themselves can come from all over the world.

Not quite sure what happened at Nimes station last night - man arrested with "fake gun"?

gun forgery is a serious offence

news says it was a « pistolet d'alarme », a gun replica that can't shoot. They're evidently legal to use in private but not in public.

Too early to say if it's terrorist related. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/21/marseille-car-old-port-france-police

evidently the murderer had been brought by an "association" (usually this means a private group) from Grenoble to Marseille for specialized psychiatric care.

Reports that the van driver in the Barcelona attack has been shot and killed. They don't hang about, the Spanish police.

Wait, had he been arrested?

Nothing confirmed yet.

OK, now I'm hearing he has been arrested and the police have shot dead someone else 'wearing an explosives belt'.

Do you have to arrest someone before shooting them I wonder

Ultimate right to remain silent iirc

Woman I work with is over visiting her parents.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 August 2017 16:30 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She was safe and well but her parents live 10 minutes away from where this guy just got offed by the Catalan cops.

The Guardian is reporting that the man identified as the driver has been shot dead and that he was wearing a fake vest.

http://www.bluemaize.net/im/automotive/vest-t-shirt-8.jpg

?

you can see why they'd shoot him

Brussels attack: Man shot after stabbing troops

Result

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41055985

Dunno when we decide that attacks pass whatever smell test is required but Buckingham palace

Headcases are always waving knives about or setting themselves on fire or whatever outside Buckingham Palace, it's like a, er, Mecca for the criminally insane.

Eyyyyy

OK, so the guy at Buck House drove at a police car, brandished a 4ft sword and repeatedly shouted "Allahu Akbar", as ever though the line between terrorism and mental disorder is thin.

Arah haven't we all done it

Well, you know how things can get on top of you.

Policemen?

A few years back there were two very disturbed local people who were arrested for planning to kidnap the singer Joss Stone and decapitate her with a samurai sword. If it wasn't so genuinely disturbing, some of the details of how they got caught were quite darkly comical. This was only a few years into the Tory cuts on mental health services, as well.

is this a good thread for this? http://www.jpost.com/International/EU-envoy-Israel-can-learn-from-Europe-how-to-fight-terrorism-503168

London ?

Or possible industrial/gas accident

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/15/trains-london-euston-milton-keynes-cancelled-huge-fire-in-harrow

Sorry for bump, seems fairly clearly industrial

alternatively:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41278545

that is mental. I just keep thinking, what would I do if I saw someone with a lit bucket on the tube?

i tell you what i definitely wouldn't do is stop to take fucking pictures of it, as multiple train passengers apparently did

kind of appreciate that they did, though

p sad that some people got trampled on the way out. though it is london public transport i suppose.

If it's a bomb, it's the world's worst - based on the reports at the moment (noise, flame, heatwave), it sounds like a chemical reaction, some bloody painter reckoning he can carry these two things in the same tub with some cardboard between them or such.

Someone on TV at some point today will say "chemicals don't just explode!", which is as damning an indictment of the educational system as you can imagine.‬

somebody's done their Run, Trample, Crush, Hide, Tell training

Must admit I hadn't thought Parsons Green would be high up on the list of potential targets for an ISIS operation.

think the police have confirmed it's a terrorist act, as far as live news feeds are concerned.

If it's a bomb, it's the world's worst - based on the reports at the moment (noise, flame, heatwave), it sounds like a chemical reaction, some bloody painter reckoning he can carry these two things in the same tub with some cardboard between them or such.

ooh, is this why you're not allowed to take tins of paint on buses?

Must admit I hadn't thought Parsons Green would be high up on the list of potential targets for an ISIS operation

busy as hell at rush hour though

it still looks more like the doings of a hapless art student rather than a terrorist.

such a fine line

i guess we just call everyone terrorists now to even the score with the daily mail

Checklist:

* Did you feel terrified?
* Did somebody do a thing?

i guess there might be an inncocent explanation for it, but why would you carry a bucket inside a bag?

if I stopped to ponder the actions of everybody I saw on public transport

maybe if it had a hole in it xpost

or maybe they'd bought the bucket. like when you buy a bag and put it in your bag

Or they might need the bag for something else later.

https://inews.co.uk/news/liverpool-womens-hospital-explosion-terror-police-lead-probe-blast-kills-one-injures-one-1300303

Bomb outside liverpool women's hospital at 10:59 on Remembrance sunday...

(bomber apparently took taxi to the hospital, the taxi driver noticed and locked him in)

The taxi driver has been released from hospital already! The only person killed was the bomber. Still, what a nerve the driver had.

Shades of Smeato.

Curious, if the taxi driver could not get far enough away before the blast to not escape injury, how would the terrorist have had any time to try to exit the vehicle themselves if they tried?

Idk, does it matter? Who cares?

good job the fuckwit used a taxi, not that I'd imagine there would be people queueing up for a suicide mission driving job in aid of blowing up a hospital ffs!

Theory is the hospital wasn't the target but the driver drove to what I assume was the nearest car park, locked the doors and scarpered.

ah right, in a scary af high pressure situation like that not much else he could do really

Re evans q I assumed it wasn’t a timed detonation so much as the guy triggered it when he realised he was stuck in the car, so if he hadn’t been locked in he’d have had time to go wherever and blow himself up there

The Torygraph sez..

The bomber, who died when his Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off, had ordered a taxi to take him to Liverpool Women’s Hospital but well-placed sources stressed his motivation remained unclear as was his intended target.

One possible theory is the bomber was intending to walk towards Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral to detonate the device as the congregation left following a Remembrance Day service.

If he hadn't locked the doors that could have been a very horrible situation

Does this mean taxi drivers are good now?

Re evans q I assumed it wasn’t a timed detonation so much as the guy triggered it when he realised he was stuck in the car, so if he hadn’t been locked in he’d have had time to go wherever and blow himself up there

Bloody traffic, smh!

Who doesn’t factor in traffic?

Lamentable organizational skills.

How do you lock someone in a taxi? Can't they just get out like in a normal car?

Central locking, all have it to stop naughty fair dodgers. and now terrorists

The story now is he didn't lock the doors and the explosion happened while he was still in the taxi.

yeah, if you've seen the cctv footage the explosion happens as soon as the taxi arrives at the hospital.

mans gonna need a new air freshener for his cab

I thought I heard on the radio this morning that the device didn't explode properly, something about the detonator going off but not the complete load of explosives.

I often overlook that in the big cities there are lots of white taxi drivers and of that ranting racist taxi driver stereotype. There are very few white ones where I live, perhaps even none at the moment. The most fascist taxi driver I ever encountered was a sikh with a brummie accent who had R4 on and was complaining that they never talk about Hitler's good policies. He was a real oddball. I bet if it had been an Asian taxi driver who was the hero of the hour, he'd have been handcuffed to the hospital bed!

Yes, I think it was only the detonator went off, hence the fact that the taxi driver is sitting at home just now with his feet up watching Escape To The Country.

I thought I heard on the radio this morning that the device didn't explode properly, something about the detonator going off but not the complete load of explosives.

here is that thin line between successfully causing terror, death, mayhem and just blowing your bollox off in the back of a taxi!

The story now is he didn't lock the doors and the explosion happened while he was still in the taxi.

― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, November 15, 2021 9:46 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Aha, OK. I was asking earlier because I wasn't understanding the described events.

Women's hospital? If this happened in the US, I'd figure that it was an antiabortion attack.

Not the intended target.

Though you're right that in the US it might have been!

It's more well known as a maternity hospital anyway, iirc

This story gets weirder. It seems like the hospital might have been the target after all. The bomber was a Christian convert who'd been sectioned before. Why did he get a taxi at all? He only lived a mile away from the hospital, he could have walked there.

A taxi just this once, as a treat

what could possibly go wrong

jesus wept

A Conservative councillor has apologised after a tweet was posted from his account which mocked the Liverpool terror attack.

The tweet, sent by Paul Nickerson, who is an Conservative councillor in East Riding in Yorkshire, included an image of the taxi on fire after the explosion that occurred outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Sunday.

But an image of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had been superimposed and made to appear to be walking towards the flaming wreckage of the car.

some of those with advanced Corbyn derangement syndrome find this kind of meme extremely hilarious. I should add in the shopped pic Corbyn is holding a wreath, presumably for his dear friend Emad Al Swealmeen.

There's some weird stuff coming out about the perpetrator of this attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg. He seems to be an anti-Islam Saudi dissident who was once featured on the BBC talking about a website he'd set up to help people seeking asylum from Gulf states. This attack looks like it could be motivated by a grudge against the German state.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/21/germany-christmas-market-attack-magdeburg-saudi-doctor-arrested-car-crowd

Saudi psychiatrist working near Magdeurg, didn't like how Germany treated Saudi asylum seekers, apparently - but how this could lead to this kind of thing... I'll never understand (nor do I want to)