No information has yet been released about the man who was arrested, but as recently as June, the Islamic State published a poster depicting an SUV driving over a heap of skulls and bearing the legend “Run Over Them Without Mercy.”
And the Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:
So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….
“Man arrested in search for driver who hit French soldiers,” by Angela Charlton and Raphael Satter, Associated Press, August 9, 2017:
LEVALLOIS-PERRET, France — French police arrested a man Wednesday in the search for a driver who slammed his BMW into soldiers in a Paris suburb Wednesday, injuring six of them in what appeared to be a carefully timed ambush before speeding away, officials said.
The driver’s motive was unclear, but officials said he deliberately aimed at the soldiers, and counterterrorism authorities opened an investigation. None of the soldiers had life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
It was the latest of several attacks targeting security forces guarding France over the past year. While others have targeted prominent sites like the Eiffel Tower, Wednesday’s attack hit the leafy, relatively affluent suburb of Levallois-Perret that is home to France’s main intelligence service, the DGSI.
Witnesses described seeing a BMW with one person inside waiting in a cul-de-sac near a building used for the soldiers, according to two police officials. One official said the attacker struck just as a group of soldiers emerged from the building to board vehicles for a new shift.
Authorities checked video surveillance of the area, near the city hall of Levallois, northwest of Paris, and police fanned out around the French capital and stopped numerous cars as they searched for the attacker.
Most were released. But in one case, police stopped a car on the A16 highway and arrested the driver and were verifying his possible links to the attack, according to two police officials. One said the arrest was violent and police fired at the suspect to subdue him. The officials weren’t authorized to be publicly named because of an ongoing police operation….
The street is normally guarded by posts that are removed when vehicles move in and out, so the driver must have known exactly when to strike, Veillant said. “They must’ve really planned this,” he said.
Three of the soldiers hit in the morning attack were slightly injured, while three were more seriously hurt, but their lives weren’t in danger, according to the Defense Ministry. The defense minister said she received “reassuring” news about their condition Wednesday afternoon.
The soldiers were from the 35th infantry regiment and served in Operation Sentinelle, created to guard prominent French sites after a string of deadly Islamic extremist attacks in 2015.
French counterterrorism prosecutors opened an investigation aimed at pursuing perpetrators on charges of attempted murder of security forces in connection with a terrorist enterprise, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The move means authorities believe the attack was deliberate and planned with a terrorist motive….
Rosie says
Somewhat off topic but there was also an attack in Belgium yesterday which I only saw on RAI Italian news
JawsV says
Not off-topic. It’s all Jihad.
jack grandville says
Another ‘mental block’ amongst the authorities — pretty common these days.
JOHN SPIELMAN says
WELL allah does get hungry now and then for human sacrifice, and islamists are all to eager to accommodate!
gravenimage says
Islam is the religion of blood and death.
mortimer says
MOTIVE IS UNCLEAR??? No, the motive of Islam is very clearly expressed in the Koran ALLAH HATES THE UNBELIEVERS! Koran 40:35 “They who dispute the signs (verses) of Allah without authority having reached them are greatly hated by Allah and the believers.” (Note: not just “hated”, but “greatly hated”.)
Jihad motivation is simple: Muslims have a DUTY to hate the dirty WRONG-WORSHIPERS (mushrikoon) because ALLAH HATES WRONG WORSHIP.
Wrong worship is any religious practice that is outside Islam. When people worship incorrectly, Allah wants to pour boiling water down their throats, behead them, crucify them, rape and enslave their
women and children, plunder them, denounce them, betray them, roast them over fires that are hotter than any fire on earth and then give them new skins so they can be roasted daily for eternity.
Muslims have a duty to HATE, to disassociate from and to subjugate, plunder and enslave the MUSHRIKOON until they convert to Islam.
Osama bin Laden expressed the MOTIVATION of jihad thus:
“Battle, animosity, and hatred…directed from the Muslim to the infidel…is the FOUNDATION OF OUR RELIGION. And we consider this a justice and kindness to them.” -Osama bin Laden
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
A Moslem stalks the front of a counter-Jihad station and plows down a half-dozen of the Infidel fighters. Gee, the motive for this is somewhat of a mystery. I wonder if any French believe this observation. As is the case throughout Dar al-Harb, the Infidel elites have sold out their own people.The Moslems, on the other hand, take care of their common interests, which a laid out right there in the Holy Ko-Ran.
Manuel 2 Paleologus says
Hey this is France!
This is the leftists and the liberals morons.
These are the idiots who lead Europe to its Islamization.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
That’s right. The beginning was “Iraq Jacques” Chirac’s inexplicable EAD program. Wondered at the time whether falling birth rates necessarily called for national suicide. But Jacques had plenty of help with the EAD.
DanC says
Absolutely incredible how much fake, bias & manipulation in Canadian Media!
Ex CTV, this morning: “although it’s clear soldiers/police was targeted, the motives are unknown”. Yep, they said this! 🙂
How much idiotic/manipulative you can be to do such a thing?!?
gravenimage says
Paris: Man deliberately rams car into soldiers, injuring six — “motive unclear”
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More vehicular Jihad. The perp is from North Africa, and has a Muslim name.
moeped says
When will the elites bring back the death penalty?
bobm says
the citizen at the barricades it would seem…. must bring back the death penalty… like the Fr. revolution ; when they took care of the “elites”..
gravenimage says
The French Revolution was largely a bloody disaster. I don’t think this would help France survive Islam.
abad says
Motive:
Moslems want to kill non-Moslems. It is mandated in the Quran that they do so.
Sura 2:191
bobm says
islam… a plague..
Arthur says
Soon, we will hear leftists say that this is just in response to French army and police occupation of traditionally Muslim suburbs of Paris. The violence would end if a 2-state solution could be given to Seine-Saint-Denis and finally allow this poor oppressed people their freedom. The only fair thing to do is give these Muslim areas their right to practice their persecuted religion and enact holy Sharia law.
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious, Arthur.
Mike Blackford says
“Motive unclear,” really??? Again…I’ll ask, whats it going to take?
Paul says
Hmm.. yet do 5 miles over the speed limit and a cop car is on ya tail straight away chasing you at speed to do some dishing out of on the spot fines .. with cameras now all over the place why has this stupid twat not been caught yet??…
SAM says
I am convinced that Trump was the reason for this incident.