State of emergency declared in France, all borders are shut-down …
Live: Paris rocked by string of deadly shootings | France 24 |
Paris has been rocked by a string of deadly attacks, leaving at least 140 people dead and many more wounded. President François Hollande has declared a state of emergency. Follow FRANCE 24’s live blog for all the latest developments.
At least 100 people are reported to have died in a string of attacks that began Friday evening just after 10 p.m. local time in at least seven locations in and around Paris.
Police have reported three of the hostage takers killed as elite units brought their operation at the Bataclan concert hall to an end.
President François Hollande has declared a state of emergency and ordered national borders closed.
- Hollande was the last man standing with Obama to bomb the hell out of the Syrians
- Hollande was ordered by NATO allies to cancel two Navy carriers build for those mean Russians
- Hollande was the good guy for the Israelis to take the toughest stance in nuclear negotiations with the evil empire of Iran
- Hollande always breaks ranks with humanity when France can deliver Mirage fighter craft or arms like to the Saudi Wahhabist empire
VIVA LA FRANCE :: and the French people pay the price …
In revenge for the Paris attacks, the refugee village – called the jungle – at Calais has been torched!
○ Calais ‘Jungle’ refugee camp on fire as Paris rocked by deadly attacks | RT | [Update]
As a result, the people of Paris will revolt, Hollande gets sacked and populist Marine Le Pen will become
the next President of the Parisians! Viva la France, viva la Republique!
About 140 dead after siege at Bataclan concert hall and attacks across Paris – live | The Guardian |
Here is Reuters’ translation of François Hollande’s address from around 11pm on Friday evening (UK time):
“My dear compatriots,
As I speak, terrorist attacks of unprecedented proportions are under way in the Paris area. There are dozens killed, there are many injured. It is a horror.
We have, on my decision, mobilised all forces possible to neutralise the terrorists and make all concerned areas safe. I have also asked for military reinforcements. They are currently in the Paris area, to ensure that no new attack can take place. I have also called a cabinet meeting that will be held in a few minutes.
Two decisions will be taken: a state of emergency will be declared, which means that some places will be closed, traffic may be banned and there will also be searches which may be decided throughout Ile de France (greater Paris). The state of emergency will be proclaimed throughout the territory (of France).
The second decision I have made is to close the borders. We must ensure that no one enters to commit any crimes and that those who have committed the crimes that we have unfortunately seen can also be arrested if they should leave the territory.
This is a terrible ordeal which once again assails us. We know where it comes from, who these criminals are, who these terrorists are.
In these difficult moments, we must – and I’m thinking of the many victims, their families and the injured – show compassion and solidarity. But we must also show unity and calm.
Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great and the state authorities must be firm. We will be.
We must also call on everyone to be responsible.
What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread. There is indeed reason to be afraid. There is dread, but in the face of this dread, there is a nation that knows how to defend itself, that knows how to mobilise its forces and, once again, will defeat the terrorists.
French citizens, we have not completed the operations. There are still some that are extremely difficult. It’s at this moment that the security forces are staging an assault, especially in a place in Paris.
I ask you to keep all your trust in what we can do with the security forces to protect our nation from terrorist acts.
Long live the Republic and long live France.“
Early eyewitness accounts here. Now hearing 112 total fatalities.
“As a result, the people of Paris will revolt, Hollande gets sacked and populist Marine Le Pen will become
the next President of the Parisians! Viva la France, viva la Republique!”
Yes, that’s what I fear.
The Calais refugee village was not attacked today. Someone tweeted a photo from weeks ago. Please correct in the diary.
i’ve seen reports of fires there, is that now debunked?
Conflicting reports. Possible that the first report of a fire last night didn’t include a photo and a photo of an earlier fire there was grabbed when passing along the report. Then someone noted the old photo and on that basis debunked the report of a fire last night.
Has yet to be picked up by major media; so, tomorrow we should know if RT and the tabloids scooped the others or something minor was inflated.
Perhaps two attacks? Sounds like a familiar tale of feud. You attack me on Tuesday, I retaliate on Friday, you retaliate for my retaliation, da capo.
Not to condone any of it.
Broadcast with video of blaze on Russia Today in their live news report on the Paris attacks.
Interesting, evil man James Woolsey on live interview Qatar’s Muslim Brotherhood propaganda station Al Jazeera. Two pointed insinuations: Europe’s fault for not fighting terrorists in the Middle East and their open border policy. It’s not really a War on Terror, only Islamic State is fighting for their Caliphate in the Levant.
A number of remarkable set-backs for ISIL in recent days …
○ ISIL siege of Aleppo airbase ‘broken by Syrian army’
○ ‘Jihadi John’: US ‘reasonably certain’ strike killed IS militant
○ Kurdish forces say IS ‘defeated and on the run’ in Sinjar
I’m not liking the sources for this fire — RT and tabloids. They may have it right, but I prefer to wait for somewhat more reliable sources.
Also, absent timelines for whatever happened last night at the refugee camp and the Paris attacks, linking the former as a response to the latter is premature. Isn’t that the sort of muck that State and Clinton stepped into wrt Benghazi?
Matie…all “sources” are reliable.
Reliably spinning the news in whatever direction they have been told to spin it.
Truth is dead.
Long Live The Mediocracy!!!!
AG
“In revenge for the Paris attacks, the refugee village – called the jungle – at Calais has been torched! “
The linked article says the raid took place on Tuesday, so the time sequence is the other way around.
The linked article was about description of The Jungle. The blaze was reported in LIVE broadcast with video on Russia Today.
Ah! Thanks for the clarification.
Reinforces my post http://www.boomantribune.com/comments/2015/11/13/2025/5167/6#6
○ Apr 2015 – France and Qatar seal $7 billion Rafale fighter jet deal
Qatar has agreed to buy 24 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets in a 6.3-billion-euro (4.55 billion pounds) deal, the French government said on Thursday, as the Gulf Arab state looks to boost its military firepower in an increasingly unstable region.
○ June 2015 – Saudi Arabia and France ink $12bln deal
Saudi Arabia and France agreed Wednesday to sign $12 billion of deals, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubair said during a landmark visit by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Paris.
○ Sept 2015 – François Hollande of France Says Assad Must Go
President François Hollande of France told the United Nations General Assembly on Monday that his country would “shoulder its responsibilities” in global efforts to end the fighting in Syria, but that the conflict could be resolved only if President Bashar al-Assad was removed from power.
[Source: MoA – Terror Attacks In France – Some Related Links]
See also my earlier comments on French foreign policy in Africa, Lebanon/Syria and nuclear testing in the Pacific. France decide to place a bomb in Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior killing a Dutch photographer. It’s two agents pleaded quilty to a lesser charge and never completed their prison term.
Watch this hypocrite, sultan Erdogan of Turkey [after 250,000 deaths in Syria, two-thirds civilian]
○ Paris attacks are a crime against humanity | Hürriyet |
Erdogan’s plight of the Syrian refugees fleeing to Greece has been rewarded with the European Union fulfilling his wishes for funds and to bring EU membership back on track without fulfilling basic right for individual freedom and freedom of the press. Which nation had open borders to allow arms and Islamic fighters into Syria to bring down Assad. A stupid, stupid world where money buys political power and power corrupts.
Is France on the verge of an authoritarian regime?, Le Figaro asks on the day BEFORE the November 13 attacks (signaled by Barry Lando at Counterpunch): http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/13/france-is-on-the-verge-of-what/.
All of the NATO powers are not only “on the verge” of authoritarian regimes but are already there. Neoliberalism is authoritarian by dint of its media control and surveillance practices. The real question should be “Is France on the verge of a more authoritarian regime?”
And the answer is “Yes.”
Watch.
AG
Yes, good point, but the irony is that this was published in conservative Parisian newspaper. Preparing the ground?
The ground has already been prepared.
Bet on it.
Watch.
AG
Paris attacks could have been much worse, appears arms – eight AK-47s, grenades and explosives –
were intercepted from a Montenegrin in Bavaria on Nov. 5 … SatNav programmed for destination Paris.
○ Bayerische Polizei fasst möglichen Komplizen
○ Bavaria arrest raises suspicions about links to Paris attacks | Deutsche Welle |
A moving tribute by a pianist who had been at earlier protests in either Tahrir Square, Cairo or Gezi Park in Istanbul.
○ 29 Glimpses of Humanity Within Protests Bound to Touch Your Soul
Mossad operative Rupert Murdoch … If he were a politician, he would
be an accomplished Islamophobe at the level of Geert Wilders.
And HRC is in his pockets through political funds:
○ Media mogul in 34 tweets
A surprisingly informative and sober article by Patrick Bahzad. I like writers that get all the known facts of an attack correct and link that to prior known facts without embellishment or speculation.
“The bomb maker, who manufactured the explosives’ belts, would be an interesting catch, if he is still alive.”
Of course is he alive, such an important asset is protected.
“Bataclan terrorist whose identity has been released (Ismael Mostefai)”
Trending on twitter all day #Ismaël Omar Mostefaï. He is from a village near Chartres, southwest of Paris. No proof or evidence the planners are in Raqqa, Syria … is pure speculation.
Just like BooMan, I have an aversion to that website … old times sake.
Nothing special in article I haven’t read all over the news in Europe today! Belgium as jihadist center is well known. There was a French/Belgian link in the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud on September 9, 2001. Radicalized Muslim women play a major role in Belgium. Sharia4Belgium was a radicalization group (Antwerp) which was well established in the conversation on Islamisation on radio and television in the Benelux.
The attackers claimed to be Belgians originally from Morocco. However, their passports turned out to be stolen and their nationality was later determined to be Tunisian. Waiting for almost three weeks (during which they also interviewed Burhanuddin Rabbani and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf) for an interview opportunity, on September 8, 2001, an aide to Massoud recalls the would-be suicide attackers “were so worried” and threatened to leave if the interview did not happen in the next 24 hours (until September 10, 2001). They were finally granted an interview. During the interview they set off a bomb that had been hidden in their videocamera. Commander Massoud died in a helicopter that was taking him to a hospital. The explosion also killed Mohammed Asim Suhail, a United Front official, while Mohammad Fahim Dashty and Massoud Khalili were injured. One of the suicide attackers, Bouraoui, was also killed by the explosion while Dahmane was captured and shot while trying to escape.
○ TV camera rigged to kill Afghan rebel Masood stolen in France: police
My bad — should have noted that the “planning in Raqqa” was speculation but discounted it so quickly that by the time I wrote my comment I’d forgotten that.
Didn’t claim that the writer offered anything new; only that he organized the information without the errors that seem to exist in most of the reports. (Mostefai is reportedly from Courcouronnes, not Chartres.)
It may be common knowledge in your neck of the woods that Belgium is a jihadi hotspot, but I assure you that’s not known over here. After 9/11, we heard a lot about jihadi cells in Germany. So, I appreciated his focus on that aspect as it has been clearly standing over the past day in the reports on the Paris attack.
Guess it was a good move on my part not to bookmark the site. While I appreciated this one piece, didn’t sense that it would be generally worthwhile. But at least he wrote the article.
Oops — now see that Mostefai moved to Chartres and lived there with a wife and child for a few years until 2012. Will have to wait to see where he’s been in the last three years.
Involved with the Verviers group, Jewish Museum attack and the foiled attack on the Thalys high speed train in France.
Allah blinded my ass … Did Turkey intelligence turn a blind eye?
○ BREAKING: “12 avions français dont 10 chasseurs ont participé à cette opération en coordination avec Armée US (Défense)”
○ French air force pounds IS group stronghold in Syria, says defence ministry
○ Police ‘Let Fugitive Suspect Go After Attacks’ | Sky News |
○ Belgian Islamophobia: MPs vow to `impeach’ Muslim extremists | RT |
The nationalst Flemish Party Vlaams Belang of the Filip DeWinter was ahead of Dutch politician Geert Wilders to bash Muslims. Quite a succes story, isn’t it?
○ PM Cameron Gives Full Support to Algeria in Hostage Crisis
○ Terrorists of Benghazi Raid Killed in Algerian Hostage Massacre
○ Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria | NY Times – October 2012
○ French aircraft carrier to move to Gulf ‘in a few days’, says Hollande
My earlier diaries:
○ Failed ME Foreign Policy – More Terror, More Backlash.
○ Obama Sidelined on Syria, Hollande and King Abdullah Deliver Arms to Syrian Rebels
Obama a symbol of gun control? LMAO
○ Gun in Paris terror attacks linked to ‘Iran-Contra’ Florida arms dealer | RT |
○ WASR-10 produced by Century International Arms found repeatedly at crime scenes Mexican drugs war
○ Century International Arms Inc. $256,382.42 Contract Issued by Department of the Army – Aug. 2012