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Europe under threat: soldiers patrol the beaches in France
2016-08-02
[Ynet] Due to credible ISIS threats, beachgoers in La Belle France are not allowed to bring large beach bags with them to the beach; armed soldiers on patrol are now a common sight; does this point to a new European norm?
The price of refusing to submit gets higher.
Alert levels warning citizens all around Europe to be wary of terror attacks are still high. Dutch news stations reported on Monday that a man was tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
on a bus travelling on a highway towards Amsterdam's Schipol airport waving a pistol and shouting that he has a bomb.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream...
unusual pictures coming out of La Belle France show soldiers strapped with semi-automatic rifles patrolling the beaches due to a warning of an attack on sunbathers.

Beachgoers in Cannes are no longer allowed to bring large bags to the beach due to security concerns. Cannes Mayor David Lisnard said that the restrictions prevent people from bringing bags to the beach which might be filled with kaboom, and explained that the move is designed to make the police's jobs easier.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  About 30 degrees cooler than where I am now.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-08-02 14:56  

#3  Skid, imagine yourself, in full kit, on the beach at 100 F.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-08-02 12:35  

#2  soldiers ... patrolling the beaches

A volunteer mission I'm sure.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-08-02 12:02  

#1  For some reason I can't muster much sympathy. I guess there's a flaw in my character.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-08-02 04:00  

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