One wonders if there is any number of attacks like these that would break through the fog of willful ignorance surrounding the nature and magnitude of this threat, and move authorities in France and elsewhere to respond realistically and speak honestly about what we are facing.
Probably not.
“New terror in Paris as female police officer is shot dead and street cleaner blasted in the face as he grappled with ‘North African wielding assault rifle and wearing bullet-proof vest,'” by Peter Allen, Daily Mail, January 8, 2015 (thanks to Thomas Pellow):
A policewoman was shot in the back and killed and a hero street cleaner was shot in the face as he tried to grapple with the gunman in a second horrific attack on the streets of Paris within 24 hours.
The officer, who has not been named, died this morning after being attacked just before dawn in Montrouge, a suburb in the south of the French capital.
A street cleaner who stepped in to try and disarm the gunmen is also said to be in a serious condition, after he was shot in the face.
The shooting came less than 24 hours after the massacre at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 dead – including two police officers.
It is not known if the two attacks are linked.
France’s top security official Bernard Cazenueve said the officer hurt in this morning’s attack – reported to be a trainee – had stopped to investigate a traffic accident when the firing started.
The gunman is believed to have been driving one of the cars.
‘There was an officer in front of a white car and a man running away who shot,’ said Ahmed Sassi, who saw the shooting from his home nearby.
He said the shooter wore dark clothes but no mask.
‘It didn’t look like a big gun because he held it with one hand,’ Sassi said….
Jay Boo says
Fortunately, at least the French public is not asking the Obama apology to Islam team for assistance in calling Islam by its true name instead of pulling a Benghazi bow to Muslims.
moses says
And the brain dead mainstream media and politicians will say it has nothing to do with islam
ECAW says
Well, it’s going to take an awful lot of these attacks to break through the fog if it does eventually happen at all, and by then the reaction against Muslims and against the leaders and journalists who have lied to us could be dire.
I’ve just been listening to the BBC interviewing two Muslims in Paris. The first said Muslims are trying hard to integrate and this will increase ill feeling toward them. The second came out with the old chestnut “He who kills a soul etc”. Why do the media let themselves be taken for a ride like this? Has no journalist ever looked up the wretched pair of verses so they can challenge the quote? Probably not.
ECAW says
By the way, the two Charlie Hebdo killers have been spotted in a car (with a rocket launcher!) 50 miles north of Paris – no doubt on their way to claim asylum in Britain.
Anon says
I’m sure when they’re caught, they’ll be sent to Oslo, with a 10-year max prison term, with TV, internet, halal food, and maybe even a .22 or pellet gun so they can target practice in their cell when bored or until being released, or until another 10-for-1 or 20-for-2 prison exchange opportunity comes up. In other words, be nice to the “terorists” say the liberals.
Bo says
JAY BOO…give ol’ boy a chance. I am sure he’ll find someway to take the blame for this or otherwise disgrace us yet again.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
Whoa – hold your horses! While I would bet heavily that the perp is a Muslim, do we KNOW that at this point?
ECAW says
We know that he is North African according to press reports.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
Right – we know he was described that way. But as EVERYONE here knows – Islam is not a race or nationality.
Angemon says
What, more “mental illness that has nothing to do with islam”?
Who could see that coming?
Undaunted says
I wrote the post at the link below to remind US cops that there is no safe spot in their AO, there is no time at which they can go to Condition White. But it applies as well to cops all over the world. We’ve been at war with criminals and terrorists for many years now and too many cops don’t get it and so they set themselves up for failure. France has unarmed cops? Really? Then they’re not cops. We have in a sense disarmed our US cops, at least some people are trying to do so, by making them afraid to draw their weapons and shoot some dirt-bag who has it comin’, lest a litigation storm be stirred.
Cops need to stop being pussies. Civilians need to stop being pussies. Muslims, boy and girl, believe that they have a mandate to be warriors for the cause? The only thing keeping some of you from being warriors for the right and true cause is your “intellect” which some of you spell this way: FEAR.
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2009/12/four-cops-ambushed-in-tacoma.html
ECAW says
Geert Wilders on yesterday’s attack:
Undaunted says
I’ve been sitting on this impression for months now but have kept it to myself.
Here goes: Jihadis in the US are wanting to catch-up with their brothers in the EU in terms of body-count and I believe that by the end of 2015 Muslim shooters will attack a Christian church during Sunday worship.
Just sayin’…
Nicu says
And our f*** politicians still defend muslims !!
Salah says
‘There was an officer in front of a white car and a man running away who shot,’ said Ahmed Sassi, who saw the shooting from his home nearby.
Ahmed Sassi is a MUSLIM name.
Many Muslims are fed up with their own religion, including al-Sisi, the president of Egypt, including more than 85 million egyptians, including the vast majority of the Tunisian people, and the list is growing and growing.
Islam will be defeated from within.
KSM says
I like to confirm things before I pass them on. How do we know that the shooter was a Muslim?
Ann Inquirer says
We can thank American blacks for this #AntiCopJihad, so we can expect jihadi copycats all over the world revenging for their fascist ideology. Allahu Akbar – the new Sieg Heil.
Ann Inquirer says
The French need to take a lesson from the American playbook – be armed At the least, the police.
Gunny48 says
Any minute now Obama will sprinkle it with “Kerry dust” & it will all go away….
Lia Wissing says
I am always surprised – but I don’t know why – when I read articles like this one. Muslims either storm in in multiple numbers or else shoot people in the back. Women count fr nothing in their worldview, but even so, they cannot act face to face with a woman.