Terrorist attacks throughout Europe

The far-right gained tried to gain a bit of capital, stoking up fears at this incident - so yeah a bit of pedantry and time-wasting bull crap is just what we need.

twitter afaict was nothing but ppl mocking ol' yaxley-lennon

That this has somehow ended with Kolo Toure telling Piers Morgan to shut the fuck up on Twitter has in some way made it all worthwhile.

Soon after I posted it to this thread I regretted it. For the sole reason that it was too soon to determine which thread it should go in, ie. nothing was sure yet. And I don't want to be one of "those guys", y'know like the DM crying wolf and using every rumor for their own sick agenda. I'm not one of those guys but prob played into it, idk.

We need a 'Rolling something's up but we don't know yet if it fits in the rolling London or trrsm thread thread'

hostages taken at supermarket in SW France; one dead, ISIS connection claimed

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43512791

Four dead (reportedly) including the terrorist. His call for the release of Salah Abdeslam unsurprisingly unsuccessful.

Van drives into crowd in Münster, Germany, at least 3 dead

Three including the assailant, who shot himself.

Just a random schmo with a history of suicide attempts, nothing to see here.

This moron's effort was so crap no-one's even mentioned it on ILX yet:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45180120

Two people were treated in hospital for their injuries but discharged.

extremely shoddy performance, 2/10 at best

glasgow airport guy possibly even worse

"You won't take me alive ..pigs! erm well maybe next time"

It was reported on the BBC news i heard this morning as mostly a commuter headache.

No Smeato this time round so this guy has no excuses.

(xp) One of my workmates was moaning about his delayed bus journey today, the only time I heard it mentioned.

what do failed terrorist martyrs get as an afterlife punishment? 72 Chuckle Brothers wi' reet appetising hairy arses!

glasgow airport guy possibly even worse

― imago, Tuesday, August 14, 2018 10:15 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

something i tend to forget: there were 2 guys, one died of burns, the other is serving life in prison

A dark green Jeep Cherokee, registration number L808 RDT,[16] travelling at a speed estimated by a witness as about 30 mph[17] (48 km/h), struck security bollards in a terror ramming attack at the main entrance to Glasgow Airport.[2] The vehicle was reported to have several petrol containers and propane gas canisters on board. One eyewitness said flames issued from beneath the car when it hit the building, while another eyewitness said it appeared the driver was trying to drive through the terminal doors. According to reports, the car was occupied by two "Asian-looking" men.[18] When the Jeep failed to explode, one man (later identified as Abdulla) threw petrol bombs from the passenger seat and the other (Ahmed) doused himself in petrol and set it alight.[6] Police indicated the vehicle burst into flames when it was driven at the terminal.[19] An eyewitness noted that a man got out of the car and began to fight with police.[20] Another eyewitness said that the man was throwing punches and repeatedly shouting "Allah".[21][22][23] The man was arrested and later identified as Bilal Abdulla, a UK-born doctor of Iraqi descent who was working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. Another man exited the car and ran into the terminal building while he was on fire and began writhing on the ground, before being kicked in the testicles by an airport employee, John Smeaton,[24] who was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his heroism.

(I can hear Yakety Sax in the background when I read that)

kicking someone in the bollocks while they writhing about on the deck, on fire, seems a strange definition of gallantry to say the least.

He was wearing his best trainers though.

flaming gallantry

not seen such gallantry since this local "legend" known as Marbles was having a piss with one hand resting on an electric cement mixer, his brother thought he was being electrocuted and decided the best action would be to smash him hard in the back of the head with a shovel, to separate him from the device. He was never the same after that and started speaking in tongues and getting arrested for exposing himself to pensioners, which is a form of terror attack - so fair to say he was radicalised in some way!

free radicalised

Another layer to the smeato story is that there was another civilian, a taxi driver if I remember correctly, who intervened, did more, was injured, but was ignored by the press. Smeato came to prominence based on the TV interviews in the immediate aftermath which ended up on tv globally.

if you aren't a fireman or five 0 you need to stay out of this hero game.

my type of heroes don't fucking take selfies with shit royal trinkets or stand for minute's silences or do fucking stupid guard of honour type exhibitions with their stupid fucking fireman sam hats lined in front of them!

well smeato is a not very smart working-class protestant from glasgow so he was basically guaranteed to be right into that stuff

taxi driver made the front page of the Daily Record at least

http://elegilegi.org/img/john-smeaton-jokes.jpg

so did they both kick the burning terrorist in the nuts, or what?

one each

No wonder the guy died.

it would have been a different story if he was wearing a fanny-pack rammed with semtex, although not quite 2-0 to his nuts against the incoming kicking feet!

Five victims in Strasbourg, France. Don't know whether they're wounded or dead.

It's a clichéd thing to say, but it always hits harder when you've lived there.

Chances are they were targeting the Christmas market.

Once had a mean viande de cheval in Strassbourg.

Not looking good, this. Xmas market indeed.

1 dead, 6 wounded. Shooter still on the run.

Of course there's already talk on Twitter of how this is a government-devised conspiracy to distract us from the gilets jaunes.

We going to talk about how an alleged Neo-Nazi tried shooting up a synagogue on Yom Kippur or not?

He couldn’t break in because the door was reinforced, but he shot two other people and streamed the whole thing on Twitch, great.

In a chilling echo of the Christchurch mosque shooting, the gunman recorded the attacks on a head-mounted camera and uploaded it online with an antisemitic and rightwing extremist rant. German media identified the killer as Stephan Balliet, a 27-year-old German citizen.
One woman was shot dead outside the synagogue near a Jewish cemetery and one man killed in a nearby kebab shop.

The German interior minister, Horst Seehofer, described it as an antisemitic attack.

meant to bump this for the murdered Paris police officers too, nothing helpful to offer rn tho tbh

I was going to post on this thread earlier but I couldn't remember what it was called.

depressing, and part of a v.worrying trend of rising anti-semitism

How is yesterday's attack in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine being covered in your countries? It is obviously the only subject of discussion here in France today.

mainly just reporting - haven’t seen any commentary. i’ll ignore the very rapidly published editorial position of the spectator which is i’m afraid as you might expect.

actually i should be more careful - the spectator piece is relatively cautious. it’s probing fault lines - it states a failure of the education system in poor areas, and talks about the electoral problems the attack poses macron, and says it compounds issues raised by the toulouse massacre, as well as bataclan and charlie hebdo. the implication is that the state is failing on terrorism, and that this will raise the salience of the issue over the build up to elections in a year and a half’s time.

the area which feels most provocative but i don’t have enough info to judge is where it says the government assertion there are no “no go zones” to be absurd, citing evidence of weekly attacks on police stations and police officers.

I live in one such "no-go zone" in Paris, where my kids have been among the very few non-Muslims in their schools, so I'm sensitive to how these places are perceived from the outside.

I don't know what the electoral consequences will be---Mélenchon gave one of the earliest and loudest condemnations of the attack, and Macron has been working on an anti-separatism law. But it would seem indeed that Le Pen will receive a boost from this.

But the sheer number of emails I've received today from fellow parents indicates that this attack has struck a particular nerve. Liberty of expression in particular against religion is one of the founding values of the Republic, and this is an attack on that value. I think the desire to protect this liberty of expression is strong enough to unite elements of the far right and far left---unite to do what is the question. And where the centrists fall, those who think that this liberty of expression is generally compatible with personal religious beliefs, is another question.

Suffice it to say that this is an enormous event in French history.

the murder of the teacher is grotesque and offensive. do you think it will be socially/politically significant than other recent terrorist events?

it seemed to me one reason it might be more potent is because it’s to do with the secular teaching principles.

this meant one thing i was surprised about reading the description of what took place in the class was that the teacher said that muslim students (13-year olds) could leave before he showed the picture to avoid causing offence. i think my immediate, cautious, reaction was to question whether it could have been approached in a way that didn’t have to mean students might want to leave the room.

Yes, I think it will be more politically/socially significant than other recent terrorist attacks here, because it targets both French secularism (laïcité) and education, and the relation between the two. These are revolutionary topics, they're at the heart of the Republic.

My wife is quite shook. Her father, now retired, taught histoire-géo for many years at the collège level.

Quebec media outlets are strongly focused on the event, and it's worth noting that 'laïcité' is also highly valued here. A quick peek at Canadian newspapers reveals little to no coverage at all.

That approach of telling Muslim children they could leave the room was so ham-fisted and divisive, even if you wouldn't expect the terrible outcome that happened - some kind of shit storm was guaranteed.