Probably another “Islamophobe” on the loose, like so many others, but there is also the possibility that this was a Muslim who decided to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60).
“Paris lockdown: Man ‘with weapon’ arrested at Eiffel Tower as police evacuate Gare du Nord,” by Vickiie Oliphant, Express, September 1, 2017:
PARIS is on lockdown as armed police surround the Eiffel Tower amid reports of a ‘gunman’ on the loose as authorities evacuate Eurostar terminal Gare du Nord.
Tourists visiting the popular attraction are believed to have been trapped in the Paris landmark as armed police surrounded its base amid reports of a ‘gunman’ on the loose.
Images from the scene show a police cordon surrounding the attraction, with witnesses being approached by police.
Some even appear to be being searched as officers cleared the area.
One person tweeted: “#EiffelTower is shut off with a large security presence from Trocadéro – trying to see what if anything is going on…”
Another said: “#EiffelTower something not right?”
Witnesses posted on social media to say the whole area around the tower’s base has been cleared and staff and tourists have been kept lcoked inside while officers investigate.
French police have confirmed they arrested a man near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Friday night.
A Paris police official said: “A person was arrested, the incident is finished.
“He wasn’t armed, we’ll know more about his motives tomorrow.”
The incident sparked had sparked panic in the iconic Paris monument.
Bob Thomas said on Twitter: “Anyone know what is going on at the Eiffel Tower? All been shut down.
“We’re stuck in one of the legs outside the lift. We’ve been locked in. They say another 30 minutes.
“Told it’s a full lock down. We have been locked inside.
“We are currently locked down at the base outside one of the lifts.
“Been told a guy was acting weird but no confirmed weapon. The staff have been locked in with us. Confirmed incident though.
“Everything is back on track. Man acting “weird” on second floor. Full lockdown. Man arrested.”
The Eiffel Tower has now reopened following the incident and trapped tourists have been allowed out….
D Austin says
Scratch Paris off my list of places to visit!
They locked down the entire area of Paris for a man acting “weird” on second floor? France should change its national flag to solid white.
Oliver says
How about yellow?
Dan says
And perpetually limp.
Martin says
Witty reply. And I agree.
Oliver says
Ad for French weapons gor sale.
Never fired. Dropped once.
——‘x
WW2 took German military about a week to conquer France.
The Jews in The Warsaw Ghetto, with NO real weapons held out longer
Tony says
And the French had better tanks than the Germans it is just that the French have not been able to field an army since Napoleon and that was at the beginning if the 19th century.
David M says
French surrender monkeys. Some of them even changed sides & fought for the Germans.
Oliver says
Some? Read Obermeyer.
Book ix either Soldiering for Peace. Or Soldiering for Freedom.
About, amongst other tidbits. That Paris had thousands of Muslims
Never bothered by the Nazis. How the French messed up a gasoline pipeline to steal gasoline and deny General Patton all the fuel he needed. And thus delayed his getting to Berlin, etc.
The Frogs change with the wind
Frank says
French: Their greatest quality = talk! talk!, talk!
Max says
French (except the resistance) collaborated than with the Germans (who collaboraborated via Hussein Al Ameini with Islamists).Today french collaborate with the Islamists (which collaborate with Germans via Merkel).I’m looking out of my window, a to islam converted former jewish neighbour with his Muslim friend are in the garden.They just told me, that they will kill me, as I am “a jewish pig”.The police told me (10 minutes ago) “Je comprends pas” (I don’t understand).But with German nationality I needed a visa for Europe, which will expire in four years.I suppose preparing losses in Petrol to replace with gains of conquering Europe, european politicians see a lot of money.
Tom says
Agree. they are toast.
KRJ says
Right. Nothing to see here he wasn’t armed we’ll know tomorrow (meaning: you’ll never hear about it again and don’t dare ask). Move on folks.
Phil Copson says
“…. France should change its national flag to solid white.”
In all seriousness, at one time the French flag WAS solid white…….as was the flag of the Taliban in Afghanistan in the ’90s – interesting that……
Andy says
I don’t know what it is about the French, they are a very funny people to read and have been a collaborationist nation instead of standing ground and fighting.
D Austin says
Have to give the French credit for fighting the Muslims that occupied Spain and tried to push into France, but were defeated by Charles “The Hammer” Martel. Other than Napoleon Bonaparte, France hasn’t amounted to much. I think they created the French Foreign Legion to do the job the French people wouldn’t.
Andy says
Good Points D Austin.
R Russell says
No it’s about to be a green flag – the colour of……….?
Grendel's mother says
Soon Paris will be on permanent “lockdown.” The “men with weapons and no clear motive” will be running free while the humans are confined to cages” for their own protection of course.
Andy says
The whole of FRANCE will always be on LOCKDOWN until they GET REAL with there moslem problem.
Andy says
The French for the most part blow with the wind and bend which ever way it is going.
‘Some Chicken – Some Neck!’ Mr Churchill At Ottawa (1942)
“When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, ‘In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.’ Some chicken! Some neck!” — Winston Churchill, Ottawa, Dec. 30, 1941
“Some chicken, some neck” was a reference to the sneering comment by French Marshal Philippe Pétain, future leader of the collaborationist Vichy French government who was convinced that Germany would successfully invade Britain as it had done France. He told Churchill that in three weeks Britain would “have its neck wrung like a chicken.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6JxSHmVB5g
Andy says
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
– Sir Winston Churchill
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/churchill-in-ottawa
gravenimage says
Your implication that this had nothing to do with a serious threat, but was just because the French are supposedly cowardly, is not borne out. Have you missed the many Jihad terror attacks in France?
D Austin says
If the French government wasn’t so cowardly, it would clean out all of the no-go zones, Muslims would be hiding under a rock, and come out only under cover of darkness.
Andy says
Your comment is 100% absolutely correct D Austin as a matter of fact what you said should go for all western nations.
gravenimage says
The French *should* clean out all the No Go Zones.
D Austin says
They have the French Foreign Legion to do the job the French won’t do. Troops and armored personnel carriers on Muslim no-go streets. It’ll be just like back home for Muslims.
Mockingjay says
…and it’s Friday again!
– Welcome to the weekend infidels – this is what they will be like from now on.
gravenimage says
Yes–remember when most Infidels in the West *looked forward to Fridays*?
Mockingjay says
Exactly – We are losing things rapidly that have been a matter of course and part of our lives for as long as we can remember.
– TGIF now becomes ONIFA – Oh NO It’s Friday Again…
Everything is being spoiled by islam.
Oliver says
You are wrong as to what, for the French TGIF means
The French. Trying to be better than Americans who only speak English wznt their children bilingual
So when babies, showing the babies socks and shoes.
, they, the parents, first in French then English. TGIF
Toes go in first
Tony says
That is because they wake up on Friday after going to their dirty mosque after doing nothing for 5 days so they are out of their slumber and now they “work”
gravenimage says
Paris on lockdown: Man “with weapon” arrested at Eiffel Tower as police evacuate Gare du Nord
……………….
How many attempts at waging violent Jihad at the Eiffel Tower have there been in just the past couple of years? How long until one succeeds?
Muslims would love to slaughter Infidels at the greatest symbol of France.
God, I hate Islam.
gary says
“God, I hate Islam.”
….You and I are not alone gravenimage.
They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Revelation 6:10
Lydia says
It’s coming. Keep reading…
God bless.
gravenimage says
True, Gary and Lydia.
mortimer says
WHAT ALL COUNTERJIHADISTS PREDICTED IS NOW HERE. France has just lost its tourist trade… the greatest tourist trade on earth!
That’ll be quite a loss. France gets 9,7% of its GDP from tourism and providing 10.9% of all jobs. Since 1999, tourism has accounted for the main balance of payments surplus. The tourist trade has grown to a balance of nearly €39 billion.
Islamic terrorism will have a considerable impact on the France’s tourism. They can no longer poo-poo that.
The French will soon regret they did not elect Marine.
Rosie says
No they have not because this is nowhere in the news except here. Not on BBC nor RAI (Italian – – I don’t speak French so that’s as close as it gets). How many people will even know this happened?
mortimer says
FYI: France already has a negative balance of trade. The tourist industry is a huge component. A big slow down was immediately noted after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The effects of the loss of tourist trade are widespread and felt the level of the ma-and-pa business. They immediately say, ‘Why aren’t the people (tourists) coming anymore?’ They are the people who will suffer most from a tourist scare. They probably voted for Marine Le Pen, so the Macron-banksters couldn’t care less about them. Their money is invested in other sectors.
mortimer says
https://www.wsj.com/articles/frances-economy-slows-after-paris-attacks-as-tourists-shoppers-stay-home-1448315112
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mortimer:
“Paris loses £644m as tourists steer clear of the city after terror attacks
France’s tourism industry has dipped sharply since 130 people were killed in Paris in November”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/paris-isis-tourism-attacks-impact-money-lost-aftermath-a7205121.html
France is the most visited country in the world. How much longer will this be the case, with Muslims attacking?
Wellington says
Definitely the new normal. What is so tragic and useless here is that this didn’t need to occur if only Islam had been properly identified for the spiritual fascism which it is, and with the consequent limitation of Muslims in the West to diplomatic staff from Islamic nations and those stupid enough already in the West to convert to this rank and execrable spiritual fascism.
Put another way, where is it written that every major religion must be good? Huge error, monstrous error, to think so. Islam demonstrates this truth enormously so.
mortimer says
Wellington wrote: “where is it written that every major religion must be good? Huge error”.
What is ‘good’? It is the practice of the Golden Rule, a rule absent from Islam. There is no reciprocity in the mind of Islam with kafirs. The main moral problem of Islam is that it is devious, always plotting to trick and gain the upper hand over the kafir, both at a personal and a national level.
Islam is a shark with a voracious and insatiable appetite for prey.
Wellington says
Still a religion, though, mortimer. A rotten one, but still a religion. I know Islam doesn’t have a Golden Rule for all but this is not the sine qua non element for a religion. And for First Amendment purposes here in the US Islam is definitely a religion.
The key factor remains: Proper identification of Islam as a negative, not a positive, much as is the case with Nazism, Marxism (not on many college campuses however), the KKK, Satanism, et al. If you don’t treat Islam as something terribly wrong, then all other efforts are essentially in vain. Accuracy is paramount.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
mortimer says
Jihad will continue until government realize that they must deprogram Muslims RIGHT OUT OF ISLAM. This is not as hard as it looks, but governments must stop funding jihadists, and stop giving money to countries that promote jihad and stop giving money to organizations that promote jihad. Instead governments should fund counterjihad literature, films and internet sites where Muslims can learn about the falseness of Islam in 10 different languages. The Islamic nuclear clock is counting down to zero.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, since no Muslim has ever been deprogrammed, your assertion that it is simple seems rather baseless, I’m afraid…
R Russell says
The Scottish Government accepted a very large number of Cameron’s ‘authentic’ refugees from Syria and spread some of them into the more remote parts of the country. Some were sent to Lewis in the outer Hebrides where there already were Muslims.
Guess what! Lewis is to get its first mosque. What a surprise!!
Desperately sad in an island where there was a mighty Christian revival 70 years ago.
God grant the remaining Christians in Lewis realise the peril they are in and seek another revival which will also include the Muslims.
Oliver says
Unless I missed it
The Cameroon is not at war
No civil war other than possibly normal tribal fighting. So why refugees?
D Austin says
How do you get Cameroon from British Prime Minister David Cameron?
Oliver says
Sorry. I misread the post.
However, while not in this case, whu are there, quote, refugees from areas where there is no war?
Phil Copson says
“…..world war 3 is coming the holy war”
There’ll be no war – the entire government machine is working (A) to deny that there’s any problem (B) to shut down any protests, and (C) to hand us over to Islam without a shot being fired.
Can you imagine that any Western government will ever order it’s troops to go into a town and open fire? Or ever summon up the will to root out the corrupt local politicians, judiciary, educators, and police ? Western politicians’ lifestyle depends upon keeping up the illusion that they are in charge, so they will never give any instructions that they know will not be obeyed. Therefore the Parliamentary puppet-show will continue, the media will continue to report on it as though that’s where the power is, and the ship will carry on sinking.
They’ll just keep taking the money, accept their dhimmitude, and settle for a guarantee of their own personal safety.
Grendel's mother says
“settle for a guarantee of their own personal safety.” That is, until they realize a muzz guarantee to an infidel means nothing. When their moslem overlords no longer have need for them to keep the kfur in line, their heads will decorate the fences like the other infidels. They do not seem to comprehend that.
gravenimage says
I think most of our “leaders” are in as much denial about the threat of Islam as are ordinary citizens.
Georg says
Katie Hopkins’s Twitter had a (regrettably) funny quip about the Eiffel Tower’s lights being out in solidarity with itself.
manat bint allaha says
iamtheeiffeltower
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious, Georg.
Hiding says
Any westerner who travels to France as a tourist is a fool. I would advise Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, humanists, atheists, to get the helllll out and try to emigrate to a country that is safer. The smart ones left Europe before Hitler could do his damage. The lucky ones were able to escape while Hitler invaded but it was much harder than seeing what was about to happen pre WW2. The ones who left prior to September 1939 had it easier. If this becomes a weekly occurrence in France there may not be any other country to emigrate to. I have written all of Europe off as a tourist destination. They do not value western tourists.
manat bint allaha says
all of europe?
try the more eastern side of it, might be surprised.
Andy says
But, they welcome third world immigration with open legs. Go figure??
What ever happened to the REAL MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE??? To stand up and fight for there (borders language and culture)-as per a Michael Savage quote.
Is history repeating itself?? Are we in the last day’s, as told in the Judeo-Christian Holy Bible???
gravenimage says
“Open legs”–another creep claiming that Western women *want* to be raped. Why don’t you just convert to Islam now?
Andy says
Gravenimage who is the “creep” you are referring to?
With open legs and open arms in reference to people of a nation just letting in an enemy of there nation(s) without even fighting for the Sovereignty
gravenimage says
Andy, the idea that every Western woman wants to be raped by Muslims is mistaken at best.
Andy says
I never said every western woman wants to be raped so I wish you would stop saying words that I never wrote. You misconstrued what I wrote.
gravenimage says
I think Europeans should stay and *fight* for their civilized societies. Even France is just 8% Muslim. With enough understanding of the threat and the will to fight it, Europeans *can* defend themselves.
manat bint allaha says
c’mon, the guy was just taking his cutlery out for a walk. it’s a cultural thing.
D Austin says
Meanwhile, Obama-era holdovers at the U.S. Department of Justice tried to subpoena a Virginia Christian pastor’s views on Islam. Fortunately, a federal court slapped them down.
DOJ subpoenas Christian pastor’s views on Islam
http://www.wnd.com/2017/09/doj-subpoenas-christian-pastors-views-on-islam/
Walter Sieruk says
This new jihad incident is one in a long list of jihadists in Paris as well as other citites and towns in France. We all may expect more Islamc jihadist incidented andeven outright Islamic terrirs attacki n France especially since so many Muslim immigrats have now entered that nation.
This is a reminder of those vicious and murderous Islamic terror attacks in the city of Paris , on November 13, 2015, is 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 in Paris 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. This 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.”
John A. Marre says
Attention, les Français ! Il n’y a qu’une chose à faire : c’est de les foutre tous à porte.
D Austin says
The second thing to do is BOHICA.
Andy says
LOL, Moslems doing BOHICA -1-2-3-4- FIVE TIMES A DAY!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odqSCLHSPkU
5-4-3-2-1!!!!!!!!!!!
gravenimage says
Paris on lockdown: Man “with weapon” arrested at Eiffel Tower as police evacuate Gare du Nord
…………………….
Muslims would love to slaughter people at the iconic Eiffel Tower–short of that, they will settle for frightening and inconveniencing the “filthy Infidels”.
God, I hate Islam.