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| French Soldiers Open Fire When Car Hits Them Near Mosque |
| 2016-01-02 |
| [ABCNEWS.GO] French soldiers shot up a car that hit them at a mosque they were guarding in the southeastern city of Valence, officials said. Two people and one solider were hurt. In what officials are calling a "surprising incident," a person drove toward the soldiers -- who were guarding the mosque -- and knocked them to the ground, said Frédéric Loiseau, the Secretary General of the Drome Prefecture, where Valence is located. Loiseau told French TV channel I-télé that the driver then put the car in reverse as if trying to ram into the soldiers. At that point, the soldiers had stood up and told the driver to stop. When the person didn't, the soldiers opened fire, Loiseau said. Loiseau said only one person was in the red Peugeot 307. The person, who authorities have not identified, was shot in the arm and leg and was taken to the hospital. The French Interior and Defense Ministers said in a joint statement that the driver was "seriously" injured and that authorities are waiting to question the person. During the incident, one of the soldiers suffered a slight injury to the leg, and bystander was hit by a stray bullet in the calf, authorities said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 You would get to be jihadi if you were looking for a street parking place in Nice, France. And did not know about the 2000 space parking lot under the mall. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-01-02 19:02 |
| #7 Lulz ^ |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-01-02 17:58 |
| #6 CIA radio sendings, For the hundredth time, people - shiny side out! |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-01-02 17:20 |
| #5 Sudden Jihad Syndrome? I'd bet a substantial sum of money that the miscreant is known to police, has a history of petty crimes and unprovoked violence, and that deeper exploration will reveal he has an untreated mental problem of some sort -- bipolar, paranoid schizophrenia, depression. There are fashions in how such people explain to themselves their intrusive thoughts: lost prince, alien probes, CIA radio sendings, God and his angels, call to jihad. I just read an article that said about half of those killed by the police in the US in the last few years have been the uninstitutionalized insane, mostly when the police responded to a call that they were attacking those around them. Quite separate from the sane plotters, like the Farooks, who turn out to be connected. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-02 16:01 |
| #4 I always thought that a terrorist act was an act of violence that terrorized. I see that the French view is that it is only such if the perpetrator belongs to some terrorist union. The perp is quoted as saying that he wanted to kill troops (even those protecting a mosque) because troops kill people. If that justifies his actions and makes them unterrorism, then it must not be terrorism to kill moslems because moslems kill people. Is that what the French believe? |
| Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2016-01-02 15:17 |
| #3 Wants to kill troops because they kill people and then be killed by other troops. Was his stereo blaring"Circle of Life?" |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2016-01-02 13:05 |
| #2 Certainly not terrorism. Do you know how hard it is find a decent parking spot in France? VALENCE,France (Reuters) - French investigators have found no evidence that a man who drove his car into troops guarding a mosque in southern France on New Year's Day was liked to a terrorist group, a local prosecutor said on Saturday. "We have no evidence that could indicate an act of terrorism," Valence prosecutor Alex Perrin told reporters, saying the 29-year old Frenchman of Tunisian descent seemed to have acted alone. "He reportedly shouted "Allah is great", which suggests some sort of religious element." "When he was apprehended, he mentioned the fact that he wanted to kill troops because troops killed people," the prosecutor added. "He said he wanted to be killed by troops." |
| Posted by: Betty Hitler2611 2016-01-02 13:00 |
| #1 ... the driver then put the car in reverse as if trying to ram into the soldiers. At that point, the soldiers had stood up and told the driver to stop. Allow me to disbelieve. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-01-02 07:55 |