And the "we are elite" get a scare?
This is the type of thing that could really light a short fuse.
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| Paris: Police mystified after bomb found in plush neighbourhood | |
| 2017-10-04 | |
| [TheLocal.fr] The Gay Paree prosecutor has opened an anti-terror investigation after the discovery of a homemade bomb at a building in a plush part of Gay Paree. Police discovered two cylinders of gas in the hall of a building in the city's posh 16th arrondissement on the western edge of the capital and two others on the pavement. They also found a mobile phone linked to the cylinders, which appeared to be "a device to ignite" the explosive, the sources said. A resident alerted police after finding two of the gas cylinders around 4:30 am (0230 GMT) on Saturday in his building in the Porte d'Auteuil neighbourhood, a source close to the probe said. Police then found the other two cylinders outside the building, believed to be on the quiet Rue Chanez, which runs parallel to Boulevard Exelmans and is a short walk from the Parc des Princes, where Gay Paree football team PSG play their home matches. Reports said the improvised device had been soaked in petrol and was "operational". According to another AFP source, five suspects were being held in jug Monday night. According to Le Point magazine the main suspect has links to the radical Islamist movement and was known to intelligence services. It remains a mystery why the bomb was left outside the building on what is a quiet street in one of the French capital's plushest neighbourhoods. According to French media, police have said there was no one living in the apartment block who might be considered a target for jihadists. But one theory put forward by Le Figaro newspaper is that the bomb makers may have wanted to target an association that battles radical Islam but got the wrong address. This has not been confirmed by any official figure. La Belle France's Interior Minister Gerard Collomb suggested the motivation may simply have been to create fear. "Blowing up a building in a chic neighbourhood shows that no one is safe... it shows that it could happen anywhere in La Belle France," the minister told La Belle France Inter.
Whole buildings were levelled to the ground in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk as a series of massive explosions ripped through residential blocks, leaving 293 were killed and over a thousand injured. Chief suspect Achemez Gochiyayev remains unaccounted for. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Bike thing seems to have happened this AM; reads more like fire than boom. |
| Posted by: Phuth Slase9811 2017-10-04 18:42 |
| #5 "You can't bomb us! We're rich!" |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-10-04 18:12 |
| #4 Did a bike just go boom in Paris? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-10-04 16:46 |
| #3 Paree, where the towers are sexy, But not tall enough to let Jacques see The Osmanization That's razing his nation... Oui, gun by gun, taxi by taxi! |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-10-04 10:28 |
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| #1 HEY!! WE'RE paying you off what's up with that?? And the "we are elite" get a scare? This is the type of thing that could really light a short fuse. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-10-04 07:53 |