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| Recent terror attacks in France | |
| 2015-11-14 | |
March 2012 A French Algerian killed three soldiers, a teacher and three young students at a Jewish school in Toulouse. He was later killed by police during a siege at his flat. 23 May 2013 A convert to Islam named as Alexandre Dhaussy stabbed a French soldier in the neck at La Defense in Paris. The soldier survived the attack. December 2014 Joue-les-Tours: A French national born in Burrundi attacked several police officers with a knife shouting "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is great"). He wounded three officers before he was shot dead. 7 January 2015 Said and Cherif Kouachi shot dead 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, including some of the publication's famed cartoonists. 8 January 2015 Amedy Coulibaly kills a policewoman before entering a Jewish supermarket in Paris where he shot dead four others. Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers died in separate shoot outs with police. 3 February 2015 Three soldiers on a patrol outside a Jewish community centre in Nice are attacked by an armed man. He stabbed one officer in the arm and slashed the cheek of another before he was arrested. 26 June 2015 Saint-Quentin-Fallavier: Two attackers entered a chemical factory near Grenoble with the aim of setting off explosives. One man was beheaded and several others were injured. One suspect was arrested. A black flag with Arabic writing was found on the scene and President Francois Hollande described it as a terror attack. 13 November 2015 Scores of people have died in a series of shootings and explosions across Paris carried out by men armed with Kalashnikovs and grenades. The motive remains unknown but many Parisians fear terrorists have again hit their city. Several Metro lines have been shut, a curfew has been imposed in Paris and French borders are now closed. President Hollande has declared a national state of emergency. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 Tri-lingual and tri-cultural... and also a perfectly scanning, funny limerick? Very well done, Zenobia F. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-14 12:03 |
| #3 Damn now ZF. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-11-14 09:53 |
| #2 "Allah is a mouse" in Hebrew A Jew seen en route to the Forum A-jogging and grogging like Purim: "I hope to dispatch it By clacking my ratchet, But should it escape, cave murem!" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-11-14 08:33 |
| #1 "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is great"). Which, by a strange coincidence, means "Allah is a mouse" in Hebrew. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-14 04:21 |