OT - 11/13/2015 Paris

[Winged_Wheel88]

Horrible situation unfolding in France.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Posted it in the footy thread but the explosion heard on the broadcast from Saint Denis:

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Posted it in the footy thread but the explosion heard on the broadcast from Saint Denis:

Geez.

 

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Now saying at least 26 dead. This is awful.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

They aren't letting the fans out of the stadium. The players are in the tunnel still too.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Now saying at least 26 dead. This is awful.

Something like 60 to 100 hostages being held in a nearby night club. It's going to get a lot worse before this day is over.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

They aren't letting the fans out of the stadium. The players are in the tunnel still too.

reports that suicide bombers rushed the gates to the stadium

 

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Something like 60 to 100 hostages being held in a nearby night club. It's going to get a lot worse before this day is over.

I don't think they're allowing people to leave the stadium where the France - Germany game was played (I don't think anybody is in a hurry to leave for good reason).

Edit: BBB beat me to the punch.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

French police are still involved in a shoot out......and there are incidents at 3 or 4 different locations around the city...including a nightclub, a McDonalds, an office building.....and hostages have been taken.

Sheeeesh.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

reports that suicide bombers rushed the gates to the stadium

I don't think they're allowing people to leave the stadium where the France - Germany game was played (I don't think anybody is in a hurry to leave for good reason).

Edit: BBB beat me to the punch.

Pretty logical to assume that those leaving soccer fans were definitely a primary target. Tens of thousands.

This was very, very well planned. Fuck.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Pretty logical to assume that those leaving soccer fans were definitely a primary target. Tens of thousands.

This was very, very well planned. Fuck.

game wasnt over ... maybe they were trying to get in and were stopped from doing so

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

reports that suicide bombers rushed the gates to the stadium

I was wondering why they detonated while people were still in the stadium. I guess they wanted to get in and bomb from inside and on television.

Whoever the hell was working security tonight are heroes.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Something like 60 to 100 hostages being held in a nearby night club.

american heavy metal band "eagles of death" playing there if anyone has heard of them

 

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Some not very nice replies to David Cameron's tweet:

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

35 reported dead now.....

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

american heavy metal band "eagles of death" playing there if anyone has heard of them

This is where I would normally post something like "I left that band several years ago when they complained I was writing too many songs about love birds" but don't feel like fleshing out a pun.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Worth noting that the German soccer team were evacuated from their hotel last night due to a bomb threat.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Just awful.

I try to to see both sides of the story but this is just senseless violence. This helps NO ONE'S cause.

Fucking lowlifes that send young people off to do shit like this ought to be castrated with a rusty cheese grater.

 

[forty_three]

Death toll steadily growing, and now another shooting reported at Place de la Republique.

Stadium being emptied section by section, French President already removed, he is safe.



Listening to a person on BBC who was in the first restaurant, she said 6 people sitting at the tables around her were killed. Sickening.