A “manhunt is underway” after a nail bomb blast injured 13 people in the French city of Lyon. 11 were admitted to hospital including a ten year old child. The incident is being treated as a terror attack. Whether or not it is a jihad terror attack remains undisclosed but it is still a possibility. An investigation into “terror conspiracy” has begun. Jihad is at least publicly suspected given a report by the UK Telegraph that highlights concern in France about Islamic State attacks…
France has been on high alert since the start of a wave of jihadist attacks began in 2015, leaving more than 250 people dead, with the Islamic State (IS) group urging followers to target soldiers and police in France. Despite the collapse of IS’s self-proclaimed “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria last month, the threat of further attacks inspired by the group remains high.
In 2015, France shut down three mosques following a series of coordinated jihad attacks that killed 130 people, and injured over 400 others. One of those mosques was in the city of Lyon. The mosque was deemed to be “a known radicalizer”.
Although this case may well turn out to be an isolated attack, France’s leader Emmanuel Macron is ill equipped to promote national stability.
Over 250 people have been killed in jihad attacks in France since 2015, and over 900 injured, but yet Macron downplays the jihad threat. He stated that “America and France must be united against the threat of climate change”, and that lawmakers should aim to support the Iran nuclear deal. Appeasing jihadists emboldens them as their goal is to expand a caliphate. Macron’s priority is not homeland security, but to promote open door immigration and advance environmental efforts. He also castigated Trump for promoting ‘nationalistic’ ideas.
Oddly last month, in a sudden U-turn, presumably to offset the the popularity of his anti-globalist opponent Marine LePen just prior to elections, Macron vowed an “intractable fight against political Islam” but he provided no explanation of how he intended to fight it, beyond lip service.
“Manhunt underway after 13 injured in ‘nail bomb’ blast in French city of Lyon”, by Henry Samuel, The Telegraph, May 24, 2019:
A manhunt is underway in the southeastern French city of Lyon after more than a dozen people were injured in the explosion of a “nail bomb”.
The blast was caused by a “home-made bomb” in a case containing “an explosive charge and nuts and bolts”, which went off at 5.30pm local time, said the interior ministry. The explosion occurred in the centre of France’s third-largest city outside a boulangerie in rue Victor Hugo.
Prosecutors have launched a terror probe into the attack.
Police on Friday night issued an appeal for witnesses, publishing a grainy CCTV photo of the “dangerous” suspect, who is wearing large dark glasses and appears to be masked.
It said he was “wearing a dark top, light shorts and could be moving around by bike”.
According to French reports, the suspect in his early to mid-30s placed the case on the ground and made his escape on a mountain bike.
An eight-year old girl was reportedly among those hit by the blast but was not seriously hurt.
AFP cited police sources as saying that 13 people were injured and that 11 had been evacuated to hospital. None are in a serious condition, according to the mayor of the second arrondissement of Lyon, Denis Broliquier.
Police were able to track the suspects movements across the city on CCTV. “We have his itinerary there and back,” said Mr Broliquier. They lost him, however once he crossed the Rhone river to the East of the city.
The mayor said that while the bomb appeared to be the work of an “expert”, the “explosive charge was relatively weak”. Most of the injuries were caused by broken glass from a shop window.
French president Emmanuel Macron confirmed there had been an “attack in Lyon” but no deaths.
“My thoughts obviously go to the wounded and their families,” he said during an interview.
In a sign of the seriousness of the attack, Edouard Philippe, the French prime minister, cancelled his appearance at the final rally of the Macron camp in Paris ahead of Sunday’s European elections in France…..
Keya says
Probably the work of a Lutheran or an Anglican perhaps!
Spiro says
Who knows maybe the Quakers again
Savvy Kafir says
Right. Maybe a Quaker or a Jain misinterpreted their religion, really badly.
garry pollack says
Huguenots…°!°
Paul J says
Maybe a Jehovah Witness who got told to f/off once too often.
Michael Copeland says
Macron vowed an intractable fight against “political Islam”.
That must be a different Islam from the French-friendly Islam he promised a while ago (but nothing happened).
Patriot2G says
https://youtu.be/fgsrnmzxEUY
Macron is part of the problem, not the solution, to fighting this political ideology. France has too many of them to stop their eventual takeover of France, which we are all watching in real time.
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed! If France is to remain a free & civilized society, the Muslims will have to be expelled. All of them. No matter what it takes. Anything less would be a temporary solution, at best.
And the same is true for the rest of the Western world.
abad says
Agreed. Macron seems to be unable to grasp the fact that Islam can never be French nor a part of French culture.
If France had a clue, they would round up every single Moslem on its soil and deport them all to Syria.
Terry Gain says
He didn’t mention violent Islam.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
+1 Boromir
Terry Gain says
Whether or not it is a jihad terror attack remains undisclosed but it is still a possibility.
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Is understatement now mandatory? Who else does this?
Walter Sieruk says
Those thirteen people who were injured by that destructive nail bomb blast in Lyon, 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
In the different nations of Europe as a whole 91% of the victims of Islamic violence ,as in many cases deadly Islamic violence .The jihadists use firearms as well as using bombs .Even using themselves as human bombs time bombs ,just waiting to go off in the many cities of Europe . It only takes a few out of many to inflect much murderous harm.
Those jihadists engaging in Islamic suicide/homicide bombings attacks 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 bombing 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.
gravenimage says
France: 13 injured in a nail bomb blast, police launch investigation into “terror conspiracy”
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Sounds like Jihad.