Paris Champs Elysees - Car hits police van and bursts into flames

Hades · 19 Jun 2017 at 15:49

Currently breaking:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40332532

Rroff · 19 Jun 2017 at 15:52

Sounds like home made explosives that failed to detonate properly from initial reports.

Hades · 19 Jun 2017 at 15:52

Could be. The driver was armed apparently.

mmj_uk · 19 Jun 2017 at 16:51

The world has gone mad, all people seem to want to do is kill each other.

Hotwired · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:11

mmj_uk said:
The world has gone mad, all people seem to want to do is kill each other.

Only needs a large dose of hyperbole to go from a handful of attention seeking killings in first world countries where people are used to comfort and safety to declare the sky is falling.

Brutal attention seeking murder? It's a monday morning in Brazil.

adolf hamster · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:13

Hotwired said:
Only needs a large dose of hyperbole to go from a handful of attention seeking killings in first world countries where people are used to comfort and safety to declare the sky is falling.

Brutal attention seeking murder? It's a monday morning in Brazil.

memory is a terrible thing, are we doomed to repeat the same mistakes?

sure this is a horrific incident, but in the long term it's nothing compared to what paris has suffered in the past.

Diddums · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:13

This is getting beyond a joke now

LabR@t · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:25

Diddums said:
This is getting beyond a joke now

It's part of living in a large city, apparently!

MookJong · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:26

My wife has just called me from Paris to say she is ok, she is there all week leading a school trip. Friday when she gets home can't come soon enough.

Last year when she was there she witnessed a running battle between riot police and migrants. Also migrants tried to get into the luggage compartment of the bus! She has done this trip for years but thinks this might be the last year they go. A mix of parents pulling children out and the things that have been witnessed are starting to taint the whole thing.

scorza · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:32

MookJong said:
My wife has just called me from Paris to say she is ok, she is there all week leading a school trip. Friday when she gets home can't come soon enough.

Last year when she was there she witnessed a running battle between riot police and migrants. Also migrants tried to get into the luggage compartment of the bus! She has done this trip for years but thinks this might be the last year they go. A mix of parents pulling children out and the things that have been witnessed are starting to taint the whole thing.

I can't believe people are still sending schoolkids to Paris on trips (or London for that matter). Mind you, Paris has always been awful - remember going there on a school trip in the late '80s and the locals stoning our bus, and indeed us when we were walking back from a restaurant.

dowie · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:36

sounds like a massive fail by the attacker this time... killed himself too early in the initial accident/didn't get a chance to use his weapons, won't pass go and collect 72 virgins

MadMossy · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:38

LabR@t said:
It's part of living in a large city, apparently!

Glad I live near dartmoor national park. Only threat here is a squirrel trying to steal my nuts!

Diddums · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:40

dowie said:
sounds like a massive fail by the attacker this time... killed himself too early in the initial accident/didn't get a chance to use his weapons, won't pass go and collect 72 virgins

Quite. I mean, no disrespect to the victims of these atrocities but you have to question the mental capabilities of these individuals if they are in control of a 2 tonne self powered battering ram and fail so miserably at the one and only thing they've set out to do. Just like the mosque one this morning, all that potential and they just suck balls at it. Says a lot about them, doesn't it? Idiots, the lot of them.

d_brennen · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:42

scorza said:
I can't believe people are still sending schoolkids to Paris on trips (or London for that matter).

Why? Kids are far more at risk of being run over than killed by a jihadi

Freakbro · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:43

dowie said:
sounds like a massive fail by the attacker this time... killed himself too early in the initial accident/didn't get a chance to use his weapons, won't pass go and collect 72 virgins

Hah, I was just typing exactly the same thing and got sidelined by looking up the 72 virgins story....and came across this

https://wikiislam.net/wiki/72_Virgins

In it is the answer to why there are no (or few) female terrorists...

In Islam, the concept of 72 virgins (houri) refers to an aspect of Jannah (Paradise). This concept is grounded in Qur'anic text which describe a sensual Paradise where believing men are rewarded by being wed[1] to virgins with "full grown", "swelling" or "pears-shaped" breasts.[2][3] Conversly, women will be provided with only one man, and they "will be satisfied with him".[4]

Also, these virgins are described as 27.5 meters tall and 3.2 meters wide! Woah....that's a bit big for my tastes....

Ayahuasca · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:43

d_brennen said:
Why? Kids are far more at risk of being run over than killed by a jihadi

Well both have went hand in hand recently

dowie · 19 Jun 2017 at 17:49

Freakbro said:
In it is the answer to why there are no (or few) female terrorists...

there is always this amusing possibility too (from Family Guy):

scorza · 19 Jun 2017 at 18:03

d_brennen said:
Why? Kids are far more at risk of being run over than killed by a jihadi

To reduce the risk of being run over, you teach kids the Green Cross Code. To reduce the risk of them being killed by a jihadi loser, you don't take them to Paris or London. Sad but when we have a government that won't fight back, what choice do we have?

Freakbro · 19 Jun 2017 at 18:04

@dowie Heh

Yas786 · 19 Jun 2017 at 18:45

scorza said:
To reduce the risk of being run over, you teach kids the Green Cross Code. To reduce the risk of them being killed by a jihadi loser, you don't take them to Paris or London. Sad but when we have a government that won't fight back, what choice do we have?

Lolscorzalol.

What utter stupid rubbish coming from you as usual, thousands of kids go to Paris and London without any incident.

Or are you somehow living in a warped alternate universe where kids are being attackrd every single day in both cities??

Geezus go out and get some air, remove that tin foil from your head. It seems to be frying what is left of your brain.