His motive was Islamic jihad, which the French authorities, like authorities all over the West, pretend doesn’t exist. So they retreat into agnosticism or claim that jihadis are mentally ill, which is probably what’s coming next for this fellow.
“Mornas: gendarmes forced to shoot man who had caused bus accident on the A7,” translated from “Mornas : les gendarmes contraints de tirer sur l’homme qui avait provoqué l’accident de bus sur l’A7,” by Mélanie Ferhallad, La Provence, May 7 (thanks to Medforth):
A man of around 40 was shot and wounded this afternoon by gendarmes in the area of the Mornas area, on the highway A7. He had been wanted since yesterday evening by the military following a bus accident, which occurred on this same highway and at the end of which 14 passengers were slightly injured.
According to our information, this man was in the BlaBlaCar that was going to Lyon. As the bus arrived at Mornas, the individual tried to take the wheel from the driver, causing the accident. The coach then left the road, but fortunately remained upright on its wheels. Significant rescue resources were committed to take care of the injured while the gendarmes of the departmental road safety squadron (EDSR) of Vaucluse tracked down the passenger who had caused the accident and had just fled. A search for the person was conducted in the area throughout the night.
This Sunday, it was finally the start of a brush fire near a house, located not far from the Mornas area, which forced the gendarmes to intervene with the firefighters. Arriving on the spot, two soldiers saw a man emerge from the bushes. Armed with an iron bar and a knife, the individual reportedly ran at the gendarmes, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” Despite warnings, the individual did not drop his weapons, forcing the soldiers to fire in his direction. Hit in the abdomen, this man was taken care of by the firefighters and was hospitalized in Avignon in serious condition.
At this point, his motives are not yet known. The Carpentras Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation which it has entrusted to the soldiers of the Orange research brigade.
tim gallagher says
These Muslims could not make their motivation clearer. It is obviously islam that motivates their murderously violent actions. This attempting to murder and sometimes being successful in murdering non-believers in islam’s evil bullshit is straight out of the Koran which calls for Muslims to carry out such actions. As Robert Spencer says, the authorities, for some bizarre reason, keep pretending that the very obvious islamic motivation for such evil actions does not exist. To deal with a problem, the authorities have to face up to the truth in the way the Hungarians and other Visegrad bloc countries do face up to the truth. Islam is the problem and all non-Muslims have to wake up and face that truth and shut the door on letting the Muslim enemy into non-Muslim countries.
Ren says
‘Allahu akbar’ is the leitmotif of a murderer.
Joe1 says
It is a good thing that the driver was able to prevent him from driving the bus. It could have been 9-11 except with a bus.