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| Louvre terror attack: Egyptian man, 'who arrived in France in January' shot five times after attacking soldier with machete |
| 2017-02-04 |
| [TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] French soldiers shot and critically maimed a man who shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he attacked them with a machete on Friday at the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum. Police sources said the attacker was a 29-year-old with Egyptian identity papers who arrived in La Belle France last month. A group of British students were among the hundreds of panicked visitors at the Louvre who were rushed to secure rooms inside the sprawling museum after the assault. The attack, which President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said was clearly an act of terrorism, was the latest in a series of deadly assaults in La Belle France over the last two years, most of them claimed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). The man was carrying two backpacks when at around 10am local time he approached four soldiers patrolling at the entrance to the underground Carrousel du Louvre shopping mall, which lies beneath the museum. They told him he could not bring his bags into the mall. "That's when he got the knife out and that's when he tried to stab the soldier," said Yves Lefebvre, a police union official. The soldiers first tried to beat off the attacker before opening fire, said Benoit Brulon, a front man for the 3,500-strong military force that patrols Gay Paree and its major tourist attractions. They fired five bullets at the man, wounding him in the stomach and the leg, and leaving him in a critical condition. Two of the soldiers suffered minor injuries in the encounter. The attacker is thought to have entered La Belle France on a flight from Dubai, police sources said, but Sherlocks were still trying to establish his identity. In his visa request to come to La Belle France he declared that he was Egyptian. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 It might not help much, the Louvre being an art museum and all, but how about letting US GI's in for free? Could save the French a couple of sous on ammo. Can't hurt. Better to let the French handle it. One of those bullet wounds might develop into sepsis. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-02-04 13:38 |
| #2 "Egyptian" irrelevant. iSLAMIST is what is relevant. It was a jihad attack. He was yelling " allahu akbar" Those words are now censored from australian news regularly. Beginning with the truck rampage killer in Melbourne who was a recent muslim convert also screaming Snackbar |
| Posted by: Anon1 2017-02-04 13:32 |
| #1 It might not help much, the Louvre being an art museum and all, but how about letting US GI's in for free? Could save the French a couple of sous on ammo. Can't hurt. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2017-02-04 06:35 |