“The victim managed to wrestle him to the ground and he was arrested by armed police as he shouted ISIS slogans.”
Doubtless he will be given a psychiatric examination as investigators begin to try to understand his motive.
“BREAKING NEWS: Knifeman shouting ‘Allah’ attacks a soldier on patrol in Paris,” by Peter Allen, MailOnline, September 15, 2017:
A knife wielding man has attacked a French soldier outside a Metro station in Paris today while praising Allah.
The attacker approached the soldier from behind and then lunged at him with the blade at Chatelet metro station at 6.30am this morning.
The victim managed to wrestle him to the ground and he was arrested by armed police as he shouted ISIS slogans.
The unidentified man is said to have rushed at a patrol of soldiers wearing combat uniforms and brandishing assault rifles.
‘He was restrained, and nobody was injured,’ said a source investigating the case on Friday morning.
The man was taken to the main Chateletpolice [sic] station, and now faces a range of terrorist charges.
It is the latest in a long string ofattacks [sic] on service personnel involved in Operation Sentinelle – an initiative involving 10,000 soldiers and 4700 gendarmes and police.
They were first deployed in November 2015 following a single night of violence by Islamic State suicide bombers that saw 130 people murdered in the French capital.
The soldiers’ job is to protect vulnerable areas ofthe [sic] capital, including transport hubs such as Chatelet, which is used by thousands of commuters and tourists every day.
But many have complained that they are now easy targets themselves, with lone wolf attackers regularly trying to kill or wound them….
mortimer says
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!
In August 2017 alone, there were 181 jihad attacks; 1016 killed; 1090 wounded; 34 bombings; attacks occurred in 32 countries.
There are 3 killed by jihad attacks every singe day of the year. ARE ALL OF THE MUSLIM TERRORISTS WHO ARE READY TO GIVE UP THEIR LIVES TRULY ‘INSANE’, or is Islam’s ideology to blame?
LeftisruiningCanada says
“The unidentified man is said to have rushed at a patrol of soldiers wearing combat uniforms and brandishing assault rifles”
Anywhere else this would have Benin a suicide attack. Why aren’t these soldiers allowed the shoot the guys they are guarding against?
AnneCrocket says
London Times: “The knifeman mentioned Allah as he attacked, according to police, suggesting that it was another Islamist-inspired assault in the French capital. ”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/soldier-overpowers-knife-attacker-on-paris-metro-8rtnz3lzl
“mentioned”
they have used that before.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“Suggesting”
There’s that British reserve again.
marina says
Macron’s France
LeftisruiningCanada says
Hearing about Train bombing in London on CBC radio. Only calling it terror attack so far.
Guest says
Pray for Paris
Walter Sieruk says
This is a reminder of those heinous and murderous Muslim terrorists jihad massacres in Paris France on November 13, 2015 it should be make clear that those brutal and cruel Islamic murders happened ,in part, because of those jihad-minded Muslim males who are so extremely deluded and irrational because they really believed in the nonsensical , strange and far –fetched doctrine contained in the Koran, of sex-filled paradise with black eye- houris, virgins, in it for the male Muslim who dies as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam fighting in the jihad. As, this bizarre Islamic doctrine of a houris -filled place is found in the Koran in, for example, 4:54. 55:56. 78:31. So this odd and outlandish Koranic doctrine inspired many young Muslims males to commit many horrendous, ruthless, heartless and murderous actions of jihad violence. Those vicious jihadists massacres that occurred during the night of November 13, 2015 was most wicked and hideous. That extreme deadly evil caused by those jihadist/Muslims with their firm but blind unquestioning belief in the weird and false doctrine from the Koran of such a houris, filled paradise that had the outcome of mass murder and chaos in the city of Paris France, is a strong reminder of the wise statement written by the French philosopher, Voltaire, who wrote “As long as men continue to believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”
mariam rove says
be given a psychiatric examination as ..
Anyone who believes in Islam is Psychotic. M
mike9a says
how to protect and minimize the devils work of Religion=Oppression of Piece: “as he shouted ISIS slogans”
…journalist? inventors…saga continues
John A. Marre says
Macron, what you have to say about this? You haven’t even tried to stop them from killing people. You are ineffective and need to resign. Marine Le Pen would have kept the religious fanatics out of France.
J’en ai marre !
Martin says
“Macron, what you have to say about this?”
He’ll have to get back to you on that.
It shouldn’t be more than an hour or two, he’s having his makeup applied.
LeftisruiningCanada says
At the Bon marche prix (tax payer funded) of only 5000 euro per hour
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “Doubtless he will be given a psychiatric examination as investigators begin to try to understand his motive.”
While amusing, this boilerplate crime-excuse – that there is no free-will choice at all – is the official stance of Western intelligentsia, and as such, is in fact a deadly serious problem we all still face.
Here’s how the so-called “soft” sciences aka “humanities” (anthropology, psychology, sociology, and even criminology) really work: They all started off by examining the various symptoms and EFFECTS of human behavior, thinking, group-thinking behavior, and of criminal free-will CHOICES, respectively, but then self-invalidated by looking for hidden mysterious predestined and predetermined inevitable force “CAUSES” of it all, which degraded them all into only one criminal, excuse-making alibi topic: “VICTIMOLOGY!”
So we get these two, permanently opposed philosophical poles:
Law-abiding Conservatives: “Criminal behavior is an effect of free-will choice!”
Criminal libertines: “But what CAUSED that choice? There’s always a cause!”
Their implication is that there are no crimes nor criminals because we’re all “victims.”
In short: they went from studying HOW people CHOOSE to act, to focusing on WHY (ruling out free will choice entirely)! And that “why” PRESUMES a fear of pain will ALWAYS trump rationality! “So” we are all really ever only helpless victims! Asking “why” people (‘always’) give in to the fear of pain, presumes that: “SINCE anything CAN go wrong, SO it WILL always go wrong, SO we MUST forgive everyone for their mistakes, as being helpless victims!”
But in reality, the real and only reason WHY people commit crimes, is that they still think they can have rights without responsibilities, so they weigh all the risks and rewards in different situational circumstances first!
And they only try to do so in each and every separate circumstantial situation, because they haven’t learned that rights ALWAYS only come with responsibilities, causes with effects, and effects with causes, and so they either remain ignorant of, or choose to ignore, the simple Golden Rule of Law moral Principle: “Do Not Attack First.”
Bottom Line: there is never any magical, separate or special set of circumstances when is is morally or legally acceptable to attack thereby innocent other people first! But idolaters keep hoping there will be, since when they claim that all is allowed unless and until it is very specifically forbidden in advance, they really only mean it is ALWAYS allowed, whether or not it is forbidden, because we can always vote to change the rules later!
And then there’s the politicians.
A common definition of Politics is “power-trading.” The best synonym for this is “compromising.” Politicians have no morals and no “values,” because they do not acknowledge the one Golden Rule of Law principle above all others.
Therefore they are an existential threat to those who do observe it. As such, they are the only true “infidels.”
In government, the legislative branch looks to the future to make laws, while the forensic judiciary looks to the past, to see if any have been broken. But the executive, which is supposed to enforce the laws, demands the right to break them all in order to more efficiently enforce them. So there, nyah!
As such, politicians are professional hypocrites and compromisers – always willing to go along with crimes, to get along with all the other criminals.
Their entirely hypothetical, hallucinatory, magical, hoped-for separate and special set of circumstances where it is morally and legally acceptable to attack thereby innocent other people first, is one where there is no first and second, no causes and effects, and so also no criminals or victims, as embodied in the argumentum tu quoque:
“Since we all do it, too, nobody is innocent, therefore there are no real victims, and also thereby no real criminals.”
LeftisruiningCanada says
I’ll have to work on that, but on first reading it seems worth a “bravo”!