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Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/20/2012 06:19 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's worse than Hannan thinks. Do an icon count. There are 5 hammers, 4 crescents and 3 crosses.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/20/2012 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  And the hammer and sickle occupies the highest point.
Posted by: Grunter || 10/20/2012 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Artisticly dumb. Intellectually unreasonable. Morally stricken.

The EU at its best.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/20/2012 14:42 Comments || Top||

#4  And Thor's Hammer wasn't one of them... not too inclusive... nor Odin's noose nor any of the druid stuff....
Posted by: Water Modem || 10/20/2012 19:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Sometimes I wish blogs would really do their own research and not just copy things over and over again.

This is not a EU poster. This is (one of many) graphics an obscure lefty pressure group put out in a publication that has nothing to do with the "official" EU. This poster certainly can't be seen in the EU Commission as claimed by the Telegraph.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/20/2012 21:13 Comments || Top||

#6  ...but is it posted upon the walls of Brussels? Read carefully Yet here it sits on a poster in the European Commission. They may not have 'commissioned' it, but it appears they have no problem posting it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/20/2012 23:31 Comments || Top||

#7  No it is not, actually. Not in the EU Commission.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/20/2012 23:44 Comments || Top||


French cyclist 'was prime target' in Alps massacre
Briton Saad al-Hilli, one of five killed on September 5 in a remove forest car park near Lake Annecy, was outside his BMW when the attacker struck, The Daily Telegraph can also confirm for the first time.

Until now, it was assumed that the Hilli family was the prime target in the horrific murder. Mr Hilli, 50, his dentist wife Iqbal, 47, and his 74-year-old Swedish mother-in-law, Suhaila Al-Allaf, were all found dead in the family car that day. All four adults died in blaze of automatic gunfire which also left Mr Hilli's eldest daughter, Zainab, seven, with horrific head and shoulder injuries. Her four-year-old sister, Zeena, survived, apparently by hiding under her mother's corpse on the floor of their car.

It was previously believed French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45, who worked at factory that supplies equipment to nuclear power plants, had stumbled on the murder scene. Police, who have analysed different ballistic angles are now working under the assumption that Mr Mollier was shot first, according to Le Parisien. The 45-year-old French father-of-three was hit by at least five bullets. They believe the attacker then surprised Mr Hilli who was outside the vehicle with his oldest daughter when the first shots were fired.

Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud on Friday vehemently denied that investigators had any idea of the order the victims were shot, calling it a "web of lies and pure invention". However, he confirmed that it was suspected that Mr Hilli was outside the car when he was shot. He told The Daily Telegraph that close examination of shoe prints in the mud reportedly confirmed this.

Following the provisional scenario cited by Le Parisien, Mr Hilli then desperately rushed back into his car and tried to reverse, but got stuck in the mud at the entrance to the forest. It has been established that a British witness first on the scene found the motor still running and the doors locked. With the Hilli family powerless to move, the gunman opened fire then approached the vehicle and opened fire.

Only once he had executed the Britons did the assailant then turn his attentions back to Mr Mollier to finish him off, according to the reported provisional scenario, as he received a second series of shots at a different angle. They are reportedly certain that the assailant then dragged the French cyclist's body round in an arc towards the car, lying him out beside the vehicle with his arms by his sides.

Gendarmes are said to be convinced that there was only one gunman. According to Le Parisien, they believe he displayed highly "disorderly behaviour" on the crime scene, "going from one victim to the other and going back to another one by one to finish them off". This behaviour, one gendarme was quoted as saying, was "not consistent with the profile of a professional killer".

Mr Maillaud last night furiously denied that police were aware of the order in which the victims were killed but he would not deny that Mr Mollier's body had been moved. He also said that police were looking for a motorbike that British RAF veteran William Brett Martin had crossed before he stumbled on the crime scene. It was seen in the vicinity of the crime scene at around 4pm -- within half an hour of the killings. A local farmer said he saw the rider looking "unsure of the route", and struggling to manoeuvre his bike over potholed roads.

Mr Maillaud last week revealed how the girls posed for three pictures with their parents just 33 minutes before the atrocity was first reported. The prosecutor said that there was particular interest in a bank account in the nearby Swiss city of Geneva in Mr Hilli's name. Believed to contain around three-quarters-of-a-million pounds, it is thought to be linked to the will the Hillis were arguing about.
Which suggest Al Hilli lured the Frenchman there, and the assassin then tidied up the Al Hillis because they knew who did the killing and why.
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Posted by: phil_b || 10/20/2012 00:10 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cyclist, eh? The Lance Armstrong doping scandal plot thickens, in a curiously lumpy way.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/20/2012 2:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "Lance Armstrong found murdered. He was impaled by thirty sharpened bicycle spokes."
Posted by: Vortigern Hupoluse1541 || 10/20/2012 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  French Nuke worker, British Muslim visiting Geneva where a large Bank account was located, meeting at a parking lot in near Lake Annecy, something transferred. then gunshots and sloppy killings. Ayybody else see an information transfer and Jihadi connection somwhere in the mists?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/20/2012 13:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Difficult for me to believe Al Hilli would have attended a clandestine personal meet and take along family and friends. He's a smart guy, a dentist. Why put the family at risk ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/20/2012 13:56 Comments || Top||



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