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Driver Shouting 'Allahu Akbar!' Runs Down 11 French Pedestrians
2015-12-23
"His motives were unclear"
A driver screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (Arabic for "God is great") appeared to deliberately mow down about a dozen pedestrians in the French city of Dijon before being arrested on Sunday, officials said.

The driver, who was in his forties, hit groups of pedestrians in five parts of the eastern city before being arrested, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said on French television. Eleven people in all were injured, two of them seriously, officials said.

According to testimonies on the scene, the driver also invoked "the children of Palestine"' to explain his actions, the ministry's spokesman said. France's Interior Ministry Spokesman Pierre Henry Brandet said "the man acted alone," and that the suspect was known to police for crimes committed in the 1990s. A day earlier, French police in a Tours suburb shot and killed a man also shouting "Allahu Akbar" who had stabbed and wounded three officers in a police station.
"we're investigating his motives"
Posted by:Frank G

#8  ...cause Disney Land Paris wasn't available?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-12-23 19:50  

#7  U.S. officials prevented a British Muslim family from flying to Disneyland for a planned holiday.


"Creasy’s office told ...She complained that officials who kept the family — two brothers and their nine children — from boarding provided no information and said she had hit “a brick wall” seeking information about the case."

All male, one of the children was 18.
Posted by: Snavick Hupiper5331   2015-12-23 16:36  

#6  That is a good argument for the shutting down of travel from Islamic countries where there is radical Islamic terrorism for awhile. That should give the Western countries time to know who they have in-country and clean up their domestic terrorism problem.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-12-23 13:04  

#5  Keep pushing, you bastards, and you'll find the Germans are not the only ones capable of a holocaust.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2015-12-23 11:58  

#4  It is true that not all Muslims are terrorists. However, virtually all terrorists are Muslim.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2015-12-23 11:56  

#3  But Islam has nothing to do with this so why mention what they're screaming?



/sarc
Posted by: AlanC   2015-12-23 11:29  

#2   A day earlier, French police in a Tours suburb shot and killed a man also shouting "Allahu Akbar" who had stabbed and wounded three officers in a police station.

Charles Martel to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-12-23 10:29  

#1  "All terrorism is the same. Now if only we could find some terrorists other than Muslims . . . ."
Posted by: gorb   2015-12-23 09:41  

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