“Deputy Interior Minister Laurent Nunez earlier told Inter radio station that authorities could not confirm that the suspect had ‘terrorist motivations.'”
Perhaps to admit the obvious would show Nuñez, and the French authorities in general, to be so catastrophically feckless and willfully ignorant that they just can’t bring themselves to do it. At least Strasbourg Mayor Roland Ries is a bit more honest: ““What happened last night is unquestionably an attack, a form of terrorist attack.”
“Strasbourg gunman cried ‘Allahu Akbar,’ prosecutor says,” CNN, December 12, 2018:
A gunman who opened fire near a popular Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg shouted the Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar,” meaning “God is greater,” at the time of the attack and was also carrying a knife, a Paris prosecutor said Wednesday.
The suspect, identified as Cherif C, born February 24, 1989, killed two people and left one on life support with no chance of recovery, said Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz. Police had previously said three people were killed and 13 injured in the attack Tuesday.
The gunman — who remains on the run — has an extensive criminal background that includes 27 convictions in France, Germany, and Switzerland, said Heitz, mainly for acts of robbery and violence.
More than 350 police gendarmes and soldiers supported by air units have been mobilized to find the suspect, who was already known to security services as a possible threat, police said.
The attack prompted France to raise its national security threat level to its highest “emergency terror attack” status, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said at a news conference.
“What happened last night is unquestionably an attack, a form of terrorist attack,” Strasbourg Mayor Roland Ries told CNN by phone….
Deputy Interior Minister Laurent Nunez earlier told Inter radio station that authorities could not confirm that the suspect had “terrorist motivations.”
Nunez added that while authorities had secured the border and set up a perimeter around Strasbourg, they are unsure if the suspect is still in France.
Strasbourg’s famed Christmas Market is one of the oldest in Europe and draws millions of visitors each year. The suspect entered the perimeter of the market by the city’s Corbeau Bridge, and began shooting at passers-by on the Rue des Orfèvres at 8 p.m. local time, when many were in the middle of their Christmas shopping.
Anti-terror police descended on the market and attempted to apprehend the suspect, who exchanged fire with security forces on at least two occasions between 8:20 p.m. and 9 p.m. Strasbourg police confirmed that the gunman was injured in one of the exchanges. He is then believed to have jumped into a taxi and fled the scene….
The suspected gunman, who was previously identified by CNN affiliate BFM as a 29-year-old male born in Strasbourg, was on a French watch list called a “Fiche S” surveillance file.
The “Fiche S” is a French terror and radicalization watch list that includes thousands of people, some of whom are under active surveillance, meaning they are on law enforcement’s radar.
Castaner told reporters Wednesday that the suspect was known to police authorities in France and Germany for non-terror related offenses.
French gendarmes had attempted to bring him in for questioning Tuesday morning before the attack but found he wasn’t home, a spokesperson for France’s National Police told CNN, without providing further details….
Ren says
He has a mental issue. Nothing to do with terrorism.
rebecca eatmon says
Fick Islam und Mohamed zu
mortimer says
Yes, Rebecca, your sentiment is shared by all civilized people. Mohammed shared his mental craze with the world and Mohammedans who ‘appear to be’ crazy when they are IMITATING a mental patient who today would be in a mental prison, guarded 24/7 and kept heavily dosed with anti-psychotic medications.
Today, more and more Muslims realize that they DO NOT WANT TO IMITATE THE OCD behaviors of AMORAL, OPPORTUNISTIC Mohammed who likely suffered from FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY which commonly produces vivid hallucinations.
Angus66 says
The obvious solution to this problem is to ban all Christmas markets and replace them with muslim festivals.
I say that sarcastically but Western countries are already doing just that…
Kevin king says
Exactly. He is a muslim
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“Allahu Akbar,” meaning “God is greater”
When will CNN and others get it right: “Our God is greater (than yours)”
mortimer says
In 624, at the ‘battle of Uhud’, the war cry of the Qurayshites was, “O people of Uzzā, o people of Hubal!” (The two principal gods of Arabia were ‘Allat wa-Hubal’ or vice versa ‘Allah wa-Kubra’.)
Mohammed, using a pun, twisted the names of the divine couple into ‘Allahu Akbar’, implying that ‘Allah (Hubal-moon god) is greater than Allat’ (planetary goddess) and ‘Allah is even mightier than the goddess Uzza (mighty Aphrodite)’.
Allat or Al-‘Uzzá was called ‘Chabar’ or al-Chubra (the greatest). She was identified with the brightest Star Venus and the mighty goddess Aphrodite. Uzza means ‘mighty’ or ‘powerful’, since Venus can be seen during the daytime.
Mohammed’s cruel, misogynistic joke is a smirking mockery of the old Arabian war cry. “Allah wa-Kubâr”…Allah (Hubal) and (his) Mighty (goddess Uzza…Venus).
yvon monahan says
This absurd ideology from an immoral Bedouin…………
roberta says
No matter how crazy the ”belief” may be, they believe in something greater than themselves.
These people disgust me, but they are winning.
mortimer says
Disagree with Roberta. Islam is INTELLECTUALLY IN RETREAT. Leading Muslim teachers know this. The Leftards are propping Islam up, otherwise it would be MASSIVELY collapsing right now.
Muslims are experiencing COGNITIVE DISSONNANCE on a scale that has never been seen. Every day, there are FORMER MUSLIMS denouncing Islam on the internet.
When the Leftards turn on Islam (and they will), Islam will have no friends left. It will swiftly collapse within twenty years, because it is without any foundation in history, morality or logic.
gravenimage says
Right now, Islam is in resurgence. I *wish* that Mortimer were right here that Islam is weakening, but I see little evidence of this, and more of the exact opposite.
That does not mean that things are hopeless; but if we continue to allow Muslims to flood into the West in the belief that they are all being “deprogrammed” we will just face more horrifying Jihad terror attacks like this one.
Ren says
The desert doesn’t provide much. What it brings is faulty.
Dave says
Too many people are burying their heads in the sand! If you do that you are liable to get f****d by a camel-humper.
762x51FMJ says
Communism/ Socialism/ Marxist leftism hate religion .
They bash Christianity and Judaism as the cause for Islam’s evil deeds.
In the USA everytime a Republican is elected suddenly Atheists become experts of verses in the old testaments if they profess to be atheists why are they such biblical scholars?
The leftists refuse to acknowledge the reformation , enlightment, and superior intellect, a free society offers over an enslaved populace under socialism communistic regimes.
Atheists have a way of viewing all monotheistic religions in the same basket, so a Christian, Jew, Hindu, are all just as evil as an Islamic terrorist..
If everyone became Atheist then there will be no more war but is this true ?
Mao Zedong, Stalin, and Hitler killed millions and it had little to do with religion and everything to do with power.. so it is obviously false.
RELIGION IS NOT NESSESSARY TO CREATE WAR..
mortimer says
The Leftards are godless totalitarians exploiting Islam to gain their own political hegemony.
somehistory says
What you wrote is true: those who hate Christianity want to use the Bible, which they apply incorrectly, to bash Christians. Many of them seem to believe they know and understand the Bible so much better than those who read and study it for a lifetime, such as Christians and Jews.
But this is so illogical. People who become Ornithologists are people who love birds. Or those who become marine biologists love sea creatures. So those who love Christ Jesus and study what He said, and commanded, are the ones who actually understand how to apply Scripture.
If everyone woke up tomorrow and were all true Christians, there would be no more war. Of course, those who don’t understand True Christianity, won’t agree, but not agreeing doesn’t mean they think correctly.
Elisha says
It was the philosophical delusion of Darwinism that opened the door to Socialism. Sow the wind …
gravenimage says
Elisha has said this before–that if you believe in science and evolution that you deserve to be murdered by Jihadists. *Ugh*.
Papa Whiskey says
Looks like that boy’s got a zabibah right below the center of his hairline.
Qur’an 48:29: Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves. You see them bowing and prostrating [in prayer], seeking bounty from Allah and [His] pleasure. Their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration. …
Dave says
I though the mark was a sign of prostitution (lol) It could also be the Mark of the Beast.
11B40 says
Greetings:
I still get some of my TV news from the France24 English-language broadcasts. This morning those folks are revealing more of the alleged shooter’s personal history. These bits of tid allege that the 29-year-old, has been arrested and/or convicted 27 times, in three countries (France, Germany, Switzerland), serving four years in prison.
WPM says
Right and he was free ,got hold of a gun in a country with strong gun laws {France} ,got a hold of explosives found in his apartment after after the shooting. He was on a watch list why was he free, who was watching him? What Mosque did he go to , have they came out with a standard boiler plate statement not really religious, rarely attended yet drank beer and wine not a good Moslem ect.?
gravenimage says
He never should have been loose to murder innocent people.
faraway says
Four years in prison for 27 convictions:not even 2 months for each crime.And I was thinking prison is supposed to be a deterrent.Silly me.
Dave says
He was probably being treated leniently because he practised the religion on peace.
Paul says
Here’s the discussion of his motives from Le Figaro (Google translation): “But did Chérif C. act under the terrorist banner? His hybrid profile raises questions. The antiterrorist section of the Paris prosecutor’s office has been seized, and the new antiterrorist law provides for deadly journeys to be considered as such. The public prosecutor justified this decision “with regard to the targeted location, the mode of operation employed by the attacker, his profile and testimonies collected from those who heard him shout” Allah Akbar “”. But according to our information, it is not excluded that the individual has acted under the spell of desperation, because all his accomplices of robbery were arrested Tuesday.”
Notice the clever trick of implying that any robber whose accomplices get rounded-up finds the best thing to do is go out and shoot a bunch of innocent people… as if somehow that will help him in his desperation!! It’s obvious what happened, something Ayaan Hirsi Ali has described. Someone who is a loser, a long history of petty (or not) crime, finally realizes the game is almost over, so he plays his “Get out of jail” card: kill a bunch of infidels while shouting Allah Akbar and when you get killed by the police, he’ll be shagging 72 eternal virgins while his friends rot in a French prison. If you believe this stuff, you’d be a fool not to choose that option!
somehistory says
It is not necessary in the U.S. to prove motive in order to get a conviction for a crime.
Whether or not it is the same in France, the police don’t need to spell out a motive before they can arrest this creep. Perhaps his wound is severe enough to kill him.
The “don’t know the motive” is just to distract from the implications of it being islam.
Everyone knows by this time, that islam is the “motive.” To kill for islam, to further islam, to make people afraid to oppose islam.
To force people to …be afraid of opposing islam…to be afraid to criticize islam…to be afraid to not give moslims everything they demand.
That is the “motive” for this and every other terror attack committed by moslims.
Daniel Greenfield has an interesting article on this Christmas market and its history with jihad.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/272218/muslim-terrorist-opens-fire-christmas-market-daniel-greenfield
James says
If he had shouted “Heil Hitler !”, we would not be hearing, for even one moment, “that authorities could not confirm that the suspect had “terrorist motivations””. They would have no doubt whatsoever that the suspect was a Nazi.
gravenimage says
Very true, James.
gravenimage says
France: Strasbourg jihadi screamed “Allahu akbar,” Interior Minister still unsure he had “terrorist motivations”
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The Jihadist is on a terror watch list, is screaming “Allahu Akbar!” while gunning down innocent people at a Christmas market, and this dhimmi *still* won’t say it was Jihad terror?
This would be amusing if it were not so suicidal.
Michael says
CNN BBC SkyNews all edited their headlines removing the mention of “Allahu akbar” after some liberal muslim organisation cried Islamophobia. I guess this was the last time we saw the proper headline of Allah hu akbar. They will not gonna put it again in mainstream news headlines.
Dave says
Terror attack= muslims 1+1= 2 We don’t need explanations anymore. We just need action, which we won’t get. The governments are against us. Any country which signs the ‘non-binding’ (really?) Global Compact on Immigration is suspect