The death toll is now four. Given the fact that virtually all of the “security threats” in France are jihad-related, this is very likely to have been a jihad attack.
“Strasbourg shooting: Two dead, several injured in attack at Christmas market – latest news,” by Henry Samuel, David Chazan, and Victoria Ward, Telegraph, December 11, 2018 (thanks to David):
A “lone gunman” remains at large after killing at least two people and injuring at least 11 in the eastern French city of Strasbourg near its famed Christmas market visited by millions.
The authorities are treating the attack as a terrorist act. Anti-terrorist prosecutors have opened an investigation.
A manhunt involving police and soldiers is underway with French media saying the gunman was on the loose but had already been “identified” as being on a list of “security threats”.
The gunman was wounded by soldiers on patrol as part of France’s Sentinelle anti-terror operation but managed to flee, said police.
According to police, he was later located to rue Epinal and shots were being exchanged.
The European Parliament based in the city was in lockdown after reports of the shooting, with British and other MEPs, staff and journalists unable to leave the building which is a few kilometres from the square.
President Emmanuel Macron was being kept informed “in real time” and sent interior minister Christophe Castaner to the scene.
According to Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, a local paper, a gunman opened fire in the busy rue des Grandes-Arcades at around 8pm local time.
“Several sites” in the city centre were concerned, it added. These included rue des Orfèvres, rue des Grandes-Arcades and Grand’Rue.
Shortly afterwards, the regional state prefecture confirmed that “an incident is underway” on Twitter.
“Stay calm and follow the orders that will be given. Consult official accounts to stay informed,” wrote the Prefet de la la Grande Est et du Bas Rhin.
“Serious public security event under way in Strasbourg. Residents are asked to stay at home,” the French interior ministry said in a tweet.
“Shooting in Strasbourg’s city centre. Thanks to all for staying at home until the situation has been clarified,” deputy mayor Alain Fontanel said in a tweet.
Caught up in the European Parliament lockdown was British MEP Said Karim, who survived the 2008 Mumbai terror attack in which 174 died by hiding in the basement.
He said: “I am in the EP completely safe and unable to leave at present. It’s an unfolding situation and my thoughts are with the victims.”
The parliament is currently in plenary session, with hundreds of MEPs having made their monthly move to Strasbourg from Brussels.
French Ecology Minister Francois de Rugy tweeted: “Solidarity and support for the people of Strasbourg. Our support too for the security forces. We are united and determined to protect the French people.”
Busy Christmas markets have been considered a terror target ever since the failed 2000 bomb plot in Strasbourg.
The al-Qaeda plot, in which a truck bomb was due to be detonated beneath the steps of Strasbourg cathedral, right next to the teeming market, has been described as blueprint for would-be attackers.
The plot failed when British intelligence tipped off the French and German authorities after intercepting a call to the suspected paymaster in London.
Raids in France, Germany and Britain followed and the ring leaders were were arrested in Frankfurt, where bomb making materials were found.
The Strasbourg attack is the latest in a string of recent terror attacks in France….
Police raided the attacker’s home this morning in connection with another case, and found at least one grenade, BFM TV reports…
Cyrus Basile says
we must begin to accuse left parties, Islam is this and we know it for 1400 years
simpleton1 says
Even the beginning of this century in Strasbourg,that is before 9/11 2001.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg_Cathedral_bombing_plot
December 2000 at that Christmas.
The seeds of terrorism were well sown by Mohammad, as shown by the chronological order of the koran, with the abrogating verses, then the confirming actions sayings and deeds as shown in hadith and sunnah.
Barb says
Watched the NBC news with David Muir. Absolutely no mention of or identification of suspect. Even my local news did not mention suspect. That’s a sure sign that it was a Muslim. Typed in France shooting in Strasbourg. Not one link to any article. I knew I could hear the truth on jihad watch. I’m sick and tired of all this protection of Islam…but not surprised.
Max says
The EU parliament will use this crime not to stop the uncontrolled immigration, but as a justification to restrict our freedom of speech even further. In other words, we are the problem, not the Muslims.
gravenimage says
France: Strasbourg on lockdown, 4 dead, manhunt for terrorist on “security threat” list, grenade found in his home
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*Horrifying*.These poor people.
And this is yet another case of a security threat known to police who was still free to murder innocent people.
Emilie Green says
As Basil Fawlty would have said, “Don’t mention Islam, Muslims, or the 1400 Year Ongoing War of Jihad.”
Ashley says
Police raided the attacker’s home this morning in connection with another case, and found at least one grenade…
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I’m at a loss for words.
Walter Sieruk says
This jihadist terrorist shooting in Strasbourg, France may serve as an example of Muslim ungratefulness and unthankfulness for letting them enter France to live. This this further exposes the Muslim’s Islamic contempt for people who are Westerners and Western civilization, Western laws.
This Muslim violence may be yet better explained by one of the fables of Aesop which is entitled THE FARMER AND THE VIPER. So here it is “Once in ancient Greece there was a farmer outside on a very cold winter day walking in if field to make sure that everything is in order and as it should be. The farmer came upon a half-froze viper about to die from the bitter cold. The kind yet foolish farmer took pity on the viper and in an action of kindness put it his is vest jacket to warms and up and thus save its life. The viper warned up revived and then bit farmer through the vest jacket. So the kind but foolish farmer died a slow painful death in awful agony because he felt sorry of the viper and saved it life. The point to this fable is the no amount of kindness will change and vicious and evil nature.
So it is with those Muslim migrants who were allowed to enter France to live . Those violent migrants who are Muslims will not be impress and change because kindness of Westerners. This is because those violent Muslims have that ungrateful dangerous viper nature because of their venomous and violent religion which is Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
The sad and tragic reality of jihad-minded Muslims engaging in Islamic terrorist’s shootings ,as in this incident is Strasbourg France, jihad attack is for a large part, the outcome the extreme brainwashing that is performed in Islamic mind programming centers which are mosques and madrasas. In those jihad mind control places students are thoroughly indoctrinated into the jihadist mindset of committing murderous attacks in the jihad for the advancement of Islam. As Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran instructs in 9:111. , for example, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” Therefore, those who come out of those Quran based mind programming centers .mosque and madrasas, are so terribly harmed and damaged that they are literally, as it has be rightfully called, “dangerous to self and others.” This results in jihad suicide /homicide attack in which those jihadists who commit such murderous actions are so very deluded that they think of that jihad mass murders as “martyrdom operations.” This is Islamic delusion of the most heinous and malicious kind.
This may be, somewhat, explained by the narrative from the fable of Aesop which is entitled THE SCORPION AND THE FROG So “Once upon a time there was a scorpion who really wanted to get to the other side of the river, but he could not swim. Therefore, the scorpion begged a frog to carry him on his back across the river. The kind but foolish frog agreed and then half-way across the river the scorpion stung the frog. In shock and horror the dying frog asks the scorpion “Why did you sting me since this means that we both are going to die” The scorpion replied “The reason that I stung you even though we both will now die is because that just what a scorpion, by nature, does.”
In conclusion, just as that scorpion in the fable had proven himself by the dangerous and deadly, to self and others, because of his nature. The violent and murderous jihadists of Islam are as that scorpion, dangerous so self and other because they is their nature because they have been thought programmed in the ways of the violent and murdering jihad of Islam. As always stated above ,this is the sad and tragic reality of Islamic terrorism in today’s world.
Ray Jarman says
+++++++++1 Walter, your point about creatures acting as they were born is definitely applicable to the sub-humans who follow the pedophilic mass murdering monster. The internecine started by the sunnis in Syria against the shias seems to have been the impetus for the onslaught of muslim subhuman invasion of the West. They can’t live in comity with one another and when they are provided refuge in other nations, they just can’t help defiling and murdering those who have offered them a hand; as your fable about the scorpion demonstrates, the cult simply cannot help being what it is.
JAT 349 says
This is how the muslims like to thank the people of France.
The French government give the muslims more than they give their own people.
This is what they get for all the tax money they pay to the government.
Then the government give the muslims free..everything.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Walter Sieruk says
Now more vicious and murderous jihadist violence France , This time in Strasbourg
Before Strasbourg was those brutal murderous Islamic terror attacks of Charlie Hebdo and then later those jihad ISIS attack in Paris, France, on November 13, 2015 and then that Nice, France jihad murdering jihad attack. Then those vicious and murdering ISIS jihad terror attacks in Paris France on July 14, 2016. Even before those malicious ISIS jihad attacks an ISIS audio recording broadcasted on September 2014 declared “If you can kill a disbelieving American or European especially the spiteful and filthy French …kill him in any manner or way however it may be.” [1] This alone exposes the vicious and malicious way of thinking of the jihadist who composes ISIS. The result of this wicked mindset where those heinously malice – filled jihad mindset was carried out by those by those Islamic jihadist deadly attacks in Paris and Nice. Furthermore the jihadists of ISIS sure have some gall calling the French “spiteful” since it’s the jihadist ISIS thugs who are so very spiteful that they murder people in many extremely cruel ways. Likewise, the ISIS savages have some gall calling the French “filthy” Since it’s the ISIS jihadist villains who the ones who are so lawless and vile that the kidnap and rape both girls and women. Now it’s Strasbourg , it’s only a matter of time bore more Muslim terrorists engage in another vicious violent and deadly jihad attack or attacks in other city or town of France.
[1] THE ISIS CRISIS by Charles Dyer Page 44
Walter Sieruk says
That heinous and murderous shooting jihad attack in Strasbourg, France reflects the teaching of the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran. As, for example, the Quran instructs in Sura 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Nevertheless, the apologists for Islam still have the gall to make the claim the “Islam is a peaceful religion.” What an outlandishly false claim to make
Ray Jarman says
I wonder if the journalists at Reuters will be put on trial for reporting that the suspect is Islamic since the EU Court has ruled that the very mention of the word islam or muslim will not be tolerated in the negative even when a statement is verifiably true. I bet that the shooter will be diagnosed with mental illness.
Max says
The give away is the word: “Christmas”. There’s only one group that hates that word. Anybody that is in doubt as the intention of the attack is either naive in the extreme or a Muslim apologist.
D J says
As the UN Migration agreement was signed in Marrakesh today and it is now no longer possible to criticise immigrants and Islam.
3,2,1…sod that for a game of soldiers.
I’m Spartacus, Islam is evil and western governments have been complicit in bringing death to their people.
KBO Robert!
gravenimage says
More insanity.
peter says
Before blaming outsiders we should take care of traitors among us Viz the left wing media and politicians !
Max says
I am going to make a very obvious prediction that the “authorities” appear to either not able to understand or not care.
The more Muslims you import, the more non-believers will die and it will become exponential in time.
Phil Copson says
Strasbourg – Brussels – Berlin – London (several times) – Paris – Stockholm………these politicians fantasise about governing every detail of life in Europe, but their powers barely extend beyond the front door-step of their offices in their own capital cities…..