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Post by pieter on Jul 14, 2016 15:19:09 GMT -7
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36800548A 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. Christian Estrosi, the Mayor of Nice, and as President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.Some reports spoke of shots being exchanged between police and the occupants of the lorry but these have not been confirmed. Social media video showed people running through the streets in panic following the incident. A journalist with the Nice Matin newspaper reported from the scene that there was " a lot of blood and without doubt many injured". An Agence France-Presse reporter said the incident took place as the firework display was ending, adding: " We saw people hit and bits of debris flying around." Another image on Twitter showed a white lorry stopped in the middle of the promenade with damage to its front, and four police officers observing it while taking cover behind a palm tree. One eyewitness told France's BFM TV: " Everyone was calling run, run, run there's an attack run, run, run. We heard some shots. We thought they were fireworks because it's the 14th of July." " There was great panic. We were running too because we didn't want to stick around and we went into a hotel to get to safety. "
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Post by pieter on Jul 14, 2016 15:25:18 GMT -7
You see dead people on the street and the Panic of French and what seems Muslim migrant people
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Post by pieter on Jul 14, 2016 15:31:16 GMT -7
The say that there are 60 dead now live on Dutch tv. A Dutch reporter in Nice reports from a luxerious Hotel. She says the fireworks was great. After the finish of the firework turmoil broke out, because suddenly shots were fired, people were lying died on the street, a bus hit the crowd. The young Dutch woman says there was a lot of Panic, the people outside dropped their drinks and run away in Panic. She was crying, and she said that she called her parents, that she was still alive and that she loves them. She went back to her hotel for safety and everyone was in panic there too!
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Post by pieter on Jul 14, 2016 15:42:28 GMT -7
www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/14/at-least-30-dead-100-injured-after-truck-drives-into-bastille-day-crowd-in-nice.htmlLive coverage by CNN; edition.cnn.com/www.france24.com/en/20160714-vehicle-ploughs-crowd-french-city-nice-possible-attackWarning very graphic imagesEurope is not normal anymore. This is nice, but it could be Brussels, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam or The Hague. Our life has changed. We have to think about every journey and every travel we make. Even moving from one city to another in your own country is a challange today. Again I say, the Netherlands is not far away from France and Belgium. Via trains, cars, busses or the airplane these people are over here in a day or two. But they won't have to come from France, because they are already here. But ofcourse we don't know where these sleeping cells are and when they will become active. And that's why these attacks can take place. I am sorry for the French people who are hit again and the families who miss a daughter or son, and maybe kids who miss a parent today. The bodies were in such terrible shape, but it seemed all to be young people.
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Post by pieter on Jul 14, 2016 15:54:25 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 14, 2016 16:06:17 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 14, 2016 17:06:04 GMT -7
Truck Plows Into Crowd in Nice, France- A truck plowed into a large crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice on Thursday night. - More than 70 people were killed, according to local officials, and many more may be injured. - “The truck was full of weapons and grenades,” the deputy mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, said on French television. —Last updated at 7:24 P.M. E.T. People crossed the street as a soldier secured the area along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France.Credit Jean-Pierre Amet/ReutersMore than one hour after the attack in Nice, France, there was no official claim of responsibility. It typically takes the Islamic State several hours, and up to one or even two days, to claim attacks in Western countries, typically through its Amaq channel on the encrypted phone app Telegram, which acts as the terrorist group’s news wire. However, as in the hours immediately after the Paris, Brussels and Orlando attacks, there was celebration on channels run by pro-ISIS groups, as well as at least on one channel affiliated with ISIS. On a channel created on Thursday, called the United Cyber Caliphate, run by a group that has previously attempted to carry out cyber attacks in the name of ISIS, a message included a single word – France – followed by a smiley face. The channel of the ISIS-affiliated Aswarti Media, which has repeatedly been shut down, was posting the phrase, “Allahu Akbar.” Yet another suspected pro-ISIS channel showed a picture of the Eiffel Tower going up in flames. Lawmaker: Police ‘Found Powerful, Operational Weapons’A victim’s body on the ground after a van drove into a crowd watching a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice.Credit Valery Hache/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesChristian Estrosi, president of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region, said on Thursday that police “ found powerful, operational weapons” in the truck in Nice. “ He apparently shot from his window, causing devastation from his weapon,” Mr. Estrosi said. And here the report of The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/truck-rams-bastille-day-crowd-in-southern-france/2016/07/14/18772ce6-4a0d-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-high_nice-615pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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Post by pieter on Jul 14, 2016 17:29:37 GMT -7
A Dutch man who was on the boulevard of the terror attack in Nice said that the Truck drove with a speed of about 120 km an hour (74 miles and hour) and he nearly hit the man, his wife and son. The Dutchman said that just in time they could jump away while the truck ploughed next to them throught the crowd deliberately trying to hit and drive over as many people as possible. He saw a lot of covered dead bodies lying on the ground. People are in shock and try to hide in their hotels, holiday apartments or in private homes. At the moment of the attack there was few police. Now the area is filled with cops and soldiers of the French army, who probably assist the French police in guarding the place. There are so many dead bodies and wounded people. The sight was a terrible mess with dead and heavily wounded people lying around everywhere, and people who left in panic left bottles, glases and other stuf behind. Hundreds of people tried to escape. In the various video's you see the mass running and the panic of the people over there. You see french people, migrant people and tourists running around.
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Post by karl on Jul 14, 2016 17:30:21 GMT -7
Yes, this is an extremely deplorable situation and for what ever reason would justify such carnage is a question with out answer.
By all appearances, the driver appeared to be acting alone but with premeditated plans on killing as many people before him self being dispatched.
Yes, how well do I agree, Europe is changing with the times, rather we like it or not, it will most likely never be the same again..
Karl
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Post by pieter on Jul 14, 2016 23:33:00 GMT -7
Yes Karl it's terrible, our lives are changed for ever. We can't travel relaxed and free anymore in Europe. I just read that the truck driver was a Tunesian from France. 'Many children in surgery'Posted at 07:11The body of a dead child in NiceSeveral children were among the victims of the attack. Laurence Marie from the Lenval paediatric hospital, told Reuters news agency that "many" children were undergoing serious operations there.
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Post by pieter on Jul 15, 2016 3:08:26 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 15, 2016 3:29:15 GMT -7
This is the reality of France and Europe today. We are with France like we were with the USA in solidarity after 911. They hit France, but it is like they hit us (the Belgians, Dutch, Germans, Danes, Brits and Poles). They are around the corner and we have to take care of ourselves and eachother. I hope that love is stronger than hate in the end. All those lives that were lost in Islamic terror (Nice yesterday, New York, Washington DC, Orlando, Dallas/Garland, Boston, Penyslvania, London, Madrid, Toulouse, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam - the murder of movie director Theo van Gogh by the Muslim extremist Mohammed Bouyeri in Amsterdam in November 2004-, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Bagdad, Aleppo, Damascus, Beirut, Nairobi (Kenya), Nigeria, Afghanistan, Mumbai (India), and other countries and cities) did not die in vain. Their lives were valuable and good when they were lived before the attacks. The terrorists can't take away the memories of these people and the love of their family members, and the fact that a lot of these people were loving parents, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, dear friends of people and dear colleages. They can't take away the lives these people lived before they died. So these thugs already lost in advance. What they gained is bad karma and sin. I fear though that the Islamic terror if it continues like this will instigate a xenophobic wave and possible far right (Neo-Nazi) counter terror. And that is excactly what these extremists wants to achieve. Discord, fear, terror, anxiety, pollarization, chaos, panic, xenophobia, racism, and an extremist reaction from the other side. If far right terrorist join the Islamic terrorists the situation will grow out of hand and societies will be torn apart and descend to temporary chaos. Al Qaida and ISIS want retalliation attacks by Neo-Nazi's, soccer hooligans and others. That's their aim. They don't give a darn about Muslim migrants and other immigrants. Muslims are targets too. They target everybody. Cheers, Pieter Links:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_BouyeriMohammed BouyeriMohammed Bouyeri (ur. 8 marca 1978 w Amsterdamie) - holenderski islamista i morderca pochodzenia marokańskiego, skazany na dożywotnią karę pozbawienia wolności za zabójstwo holenderskiego reżysera Theo van Gogha. Posiada podwójne obywatelstwo: holenderskie i marokańskie. Jego rodzice to pierwsze pokolenie imigrantów, mówiących słabo po niderlandzku i zachowujących odrębność od rdzennych Holendrów. Bouyeri używał pseudonimu Abu Zubair, którym podpisywał się m.in. w swoich e-mailach. Został aresztowany 2 listopada 2004 z podejrzeniem zabójstwa reżysera. Zabójstwo miało podłoże religijne. Zamordowany w swoich obrazach wykazywał negatywny stosunek do społeczności islamskich zamieszkałych w Europie. Motywem zbrodni była jedynie nienawiść religijna. 26 lipca 2005 został skazany przez sąd w Amsterdamie na karę dożywotniego więzienia.
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Post by pieter on Jul 15, 2016 3:56:04 GMT -7
Al Jazeera report'I saw bodies flying'Writing online, Nice Matin journalist Damien Allemand, who was on the scene, said the firework display had finished and the crowd was about to leave when they heard a noise and screams. " A fraction of a second later, an enormous white truck came along at a crazy speed, turning the wheel to mow down the maximum number of people," he said. " I saw bodies flying like bowling pins along its route. Heard noises, cries that I will never forget." Allemand said that he and others took shelter in a nearby restaurant. He continued to hear people shouting for missing family members. He ventured out and saw bodies, blood and body parts all along the road. " This evening, it was horror," he said. The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation for " murder, attempted murder in an organised group linked to a terrorist enterprise". The investigation was being handled by France's intelligence agency and judicial police. An eyewitness told the Associated Press news agency he saw the driver emerge from the lorry shooting, after ramming into the crowd. " There was carnage on the road," Wassim Bouhlel, a witness, told AP. " Bodies everywhere." In a video viewed over 2,500 times on Facebook, a trembling Tarubi Wahid Mosta told of the horror on the promenade, where he took photos of an abandoned doll and pushchair and came home with a victim's dog. " I almost stepped on a corpse, it was horrible. It looked like a battlefield," he said. In a series of posts he described a sense of helplessness faced with the carnage. " All these bodies and their families ... they spent hours on the ground holding the cold hands of bodies dismembered by the truck. You can't even speak to them or comfort them."
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Post by pieter on Jul 15, 2016 8:27:21 GMT -7
The main suspect was identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel [French government]France has declared three days of national mourning after at least 84 people were killed in the city of Nice when an attacker drove a lorry into a large crowd celebrating the country's main national holiday. Speaking from Nice on Friday, French President Francois Hollande said around 50 people are in critical condition, still "between life and death" after the attack. Police have identified the suspect on Friday as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old man, who is originally from Tunisia. Authorities said he was married with three children. Authorities said Bouhlel, who works as a driver in Nice, rented the lorry he used in the attack five days ago. Bouhlel was known to French police, but not intelligence officials. The suspect was shot dead on Thursday night, after ramming the lorry through the festive crowd for two kilometres, sending hundreds of people fleeing in terror and leaving the area strewn with bodies, including many children. Speaking after an emergency meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the period of national mourning would begin on Saturday. Valls also confirmed that a measure extending the country's state of emergency, which has been in force since the November 13 Paris attacks, would go before parliament next week. "Times have changed, and France is going to have to live with terrorism, and we must face this together," he said. 'Nothing will make us yield'There was no immediate claim of responsibility for what was the third major attack to hit France in the past 18 months. Hollande said the incident had "all the elements to be called a terrorist attack" and vowed to fight similar threats. "Nothing will make us yield in our will to fight terrorism," he said in the early hours of Friday. "We will further strengthen our actions in Iraq and in Syria. We will continue striking those who attack us on our own soil," Hollande added, in reference to France's involvement in a coalition of nations carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group. Investigators work at the scene near the lorry that ran into a crowd in the southern city of Nice [Eric Gaillard/Reuters]As condolences poured in from around the world, more details emerged about the attack that began shortly after the end of a firework display for Bastille Day. Footage showed a scene of horror up and down the promenade, with broken bodies splayed on the asphalt - some piled near one another, others bleeding on to the roadway or twisted into unnatural shapes. Some people at the promenade had tried to escape into the water, local MP Eric Ciotti said on Friday, giving new details of the horrifying last minutes of the attack. "A person jumped on to the truck to try to stop it," Ciotti told Europe 1 radio. "It's at that moment that the police were able to neutralise this terrorist. I won't forget the look of this policewoman who intercepted the killer." Al Jazeera's David Chater, reporting from Nice, said people in the city were "absolutely distraught". "This was a horrific attack. The lorry was driven at speed; it was swerved around the road and it was used to crash, maim, kill and injure," he said. "All the families who'd gathered on this road, they had just finished seeing the Bastille Day fireworks, and so it was an extraordinarily calculated attempt at mass murder and an attempt that did succeed." 'Bodies everywhere'The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation for "murder, attempted murder in an organised group linked to a terrorist enterprise". The investigation was being handled by France's intelligence agency and judicial police. Police also said investigations were under way to find out if the driver acted alone or if he had accomplices at the scene. A witness told the Associated Press news agency he saw the driver emerge from the lorry shooting, after ramming into the crowd.
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Post by pieter on Jul 15, 2016 8:48:33 GMT -7
Nice attack: Footage of police shooting lorry attackerNader El Shafei, a former banker from Cairo, witnessed the truck attack in Nice, France. Linda HervieuxNader el-Shafei filmed the final moments of the lorry attack in Nice that left at least 84 people dead. He describes how he looked the attacker in the face moments before filming the confrontation with police. www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36802375An Egyptian man on vacation in Nice came face to face with the driver of the truck who plowed into the holiday crowd. Nader El Shafei, a former banker from Cairo, Egypt, recounted the terrifying moments in the lobby of the Hotel Mercure to freelance journalist Linda Hervieux. After the truck plowed into the crowd — " He smashed into a lot of people" — El Shafei walked in front of the vehicle and waved his arms at the driver. " I was waving to the driver 'Stop, there's a girl under the truck.' " I saw him pick up a phone, I thought, and at this point I still think it's an accident and then I see he pulls out a gun. It looked like a handgun, a Glock. He pulled it out and I understood something was wrong ... and then I see the police shooting him." Everyone started running, he said. The cops were yelling at him to get out of the way. " I couldn't run," he said. "I was just frozen." He said that when he was on the promenade, the though of terrorism crossed his mind. " Five minutes before this happened, I thought in this peaceful place somebody crazy could do something." " I'm used to all of these actions in the Middle East but I was never this close to it. I said to my friends, 'Now we can't go to Europe to escape the Middle East. Now the Middle East can happen anywhere." Nader El shafei, Associate Manager SG Bank, BNP PARIBAS,ALEXBANK,Strategic Vision
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