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So, apparently there was a terrorist attack less than one hour ago, in the south of France.
It is National Day today in France, so there was a firework, and a truck cruched a lot of people Who were gathered.
Some fire shots were heard, don't know if it is the Police or not.
20 to 50 dead, for now.

Waiting for more infos.

At least one hundred wounded and one bad guy killed.

My parents were in that part of France a few days ago. Luckily, they went north to Annecy which is a few hundred miles north.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36800730

A lorry has struck a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city of Nice, with reports of many dead.
The incident took place on the famous Promenade des Anglais during a firework display, media reports say.
One image on Twitter showed about a dozen people lying on the street, some being tended to.
The local prefecture has urged people in the area to remain indoors, calling the incident "an attack".
Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said that "a lorry driver appears to have killed dozens of people".
A local official was later quoted as saying that at least 30 people were dead.
The mayor and police urged residents to stay indoors.

...I've got nothing. People who attack places where folks go to celebrate and feel safe... How the feth do you even explain that.

Heard the driver got out of the truck and opened fire before being taken down.

But that is early reporting. Be a while before we get anything accurate.

There are no words that can express my disgust, dismay and fury, that have not been said a thousand times over. So I will simply leave a quote from one of my favourite TV shows that suddenly sprung to mind.

"All this has happened before, and will happen again".

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There are so many of these big attacks now that I'm losing count. What was the last big one in France? The Bataclan?

There was the Pulse Gay club in Orlando Florida, recently.

Utterly horrifying.

Reports of a gunman still out there, but again, early reporting...

Daily Mail said hostages were taken in a hotel and restaurant.

Not again.... France does not deserve this. No one does.

Dakka does not let me type words to sum up my opinion of the attacker

We are at war. Our cities are a frontline.

Death toll now listed at 60+

Secondary rumours of hostage taking in hotels and restaurants in Nice (source is Wikipedia so take very lightly please).

I was holding onto hope it was a person who died at the wheel and the police overreacted, back when the death toll was estimated at a dozen.


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Condolences to our French forum members.

It looks like the siggie I put up after Charlie Hebdo is staying where it is.

They said they killed the driver a bit ago. Now they're saying they caught the guy.

They won't let France be... This is the 4th/5th big attack already in 2 years time.?

Multiple sources say it's ISIS. No official statement yet.

At least they are doing a pretty good job keeping things quiet in the media from what I can notice. Unlike last time.

I feel we should stop messing about with these half-measures and dial it up to "maximum effort" where these people are concerned.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
I feel we should stop messing about with these half-measures and dial it up to "maximum effort" where these people are concerned.

That is unfortunately easy to say. These scum hide in plain sight with EU passports, or are officially welcomed refugees.

It has been known that ISIL has infiltrated Syrian refugees entering Europe. Yers we must opposed tthose filth but the zeitgeist is stromngly in favour of declaring that looking at Syrian refugees in general as a thread is far right extremism.
There just isn't an easy answer to all this.

It is plain that French intelligence is not coping, ISIL wants us all, and the UK is a higher profile target than France due to the Iraq war and a more active presence in the middle east. Plus being 'Little Satan'.
The fact that we arent being boned right now is a possible indication that MI5 is doing a very good job. Though how could we tell.

DaIsh reportedly claimed credit.

 CptJake wrote:
DaIsh reportedly claimed credit.

They'd claim a pile of dung if they thought it'd get attention. Scum.

 Orlanth wrote:
These scum ... are officially welcomed refugees

Which attack was carried out by refugees?

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 CptJake wrote:
DaIsh reportedly claimed credit.

They'd claim a pile of dung if they thought it'd get attention. Scum.

Good point. It does ignore that the previous attacks in France were definitely linked to them though.

 Orlanth wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
I feel we should stop messing about with these half-measures and dial it up to "maximum effort" where these people are concerned.

That is unfortunately easy to say. These scum hide in plain sight with EU passports, or are officially welcomed refugees.

It has been known that ISIL has infiltrated Syrian refugees entering Europe. Yers we must opposed tthose filth but the zeitgeist is stromngly in favour of declaring that looking at Syrian refugees in general as a thread is far right extremism.
There just isn't an easy answer to all this.

It is plain that French intelligence is not coping, ISIL wants us all, and the UK is a higher profile target than France due to the Iraq war and a more active presence in the middle east. Plus being 'Little Satan'.
The fact that we arent being boned right now is a possible indication that MI5 is doing a very good job. Though how could we tell.

UK security services are unrecognised hero,s right now...
Europe is porus. Land borders. UK has controlled entry points..freedom of movement has risk

Death toll up to 73. Reports the truck was filled with arms/grenades.

@jhe90: abso-fething-lutely

Why all the guns and grenades in the truck for a single guy ?

twittah wrote:#Nice witness: Truck “crushed everyone in its path.” Then 2 men got out of the truck “and started shooting into the crowd, about 50 shots”.

Jesus... this is horrible!

Here's a twittah video, do NOT click this if you're squeamish:
https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/753731972523028480

That was some of the most horrifying things of seen in awhile...

...

I'm speechless.

 whembly wrote:

twittah wrote:#Nice witness: Truck “crushed everyone in its path.” Then 2 men got out of the truck “and started shooting into the crowd, about 50 shots”.

Jesus... this is horrible!

Here's a twittah video, do NOT click this if you're squeamish:
https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/753731972523028480

That was some of the most horrifying things of seen in awhile...

Was this the video from the shooters PoV? Who added all the TXT?

I could do without some person taking footage and immediately turning it into propaganda if that is what they did.

nkelsch wrote:

 whembly wrote:

twittah wrote:#Nice witness: Truck “crushed everyone in its path.” Then 2 men got out of the truck “and started shooting into the crowd, about 50 shots”.

Jesus... this is horrible!

Here's a twittah video, do NOT click this if you're squeamish:
https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/753731972523028480

That was some of the most horrifying things of seen in awhile...

Was this the video from the shooters PoV? Who added all the TXT?

I could do without some person taking footage and immediately turning it into propaganda if that is what they did.

This was clearly made by a survivor/bystander, with an anti-Islam PoV.

Confirmed 77 is now dead.

http://news.sky.com/story/attack-in-nice-73-dead-as-truck-hits-crowd-10502068



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nkelsch wrote:

Was this the video from the shooters PoV? Who added all the TXT?

I could do without some person taking footage and immediately turning it into propaganda if that is what they did.

I didn't even pay attention to the text...

 whembly wrote:

twittah wrote:#Nice witness: Truck “crushed everyone in its path.” Then 2 men got out of the truck “and started shooting into the crowd, about 50 shots”.

Jesus... this is horrible!

Here's a twittah video, do NOT click this if you're squeamish:
https://twitter.com/JaredWyand/status/753731972523028480

That was some of the most horrifying things of seen in awhile...

I don't know what is draining my faith in humanity the most.

Those news, or that twitter feed.

Tout mon soutien aux Français qui se souviennent de la plus belle des devises nationales.

This, regrettably, is the face of war with terrorists. To my untrained eye, it seems the "sleeper" attacks on civilian targets in the West have ramped up proportionately with their continued battlefield losses in Iraq.

It's terrible that such things happen in the first place, but the frequency of these attacks is growing alarmingly. This really isn't an era of "two armies from two well-established political states with clearly defined territory" anymore. Conflict is occurring when individual people who blend in with citizens suddenly attack other civilians. No more trenches, no more warships, no more combat in the sky, it's all happening in major population centers now. Nations' security and military forces aren't designed to handle this kind of conflict, it's something we've hardly ever seen until the past couple decades. But we can't let this continue. Not to average people, people with lives, goals, aspirations, family and loved ones.

Sickening doesn't even begin to describe the minds of these attackers.

80 people confirmed dead, driver was killed at the wheel.

My prayers with all the family's of the dead, and to France. This is just purely and absolutely horrid, and I hope the murderer burns in hell.