75 dead, 100 Injured in Latest Terror Attack in France

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Another terror attack has hit France.

At least 75 people are dead and more than 150 injured after they were mown down by a truck who drove more than a mile along the promenade ploughing down pedestrians in a suspected terror attack during the Bastille Day celebrations in the French city of Nice.

Eyewitnesses say there was an exchange of gunfire in the aftermath of the incident before the driver was shot dead. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to unconfirmed reports in the French media. A second suspect is currently on the run according to French authorities.

Guns and grenades were later said to have been found inside the truck, which mounted the pavement at approximately 40mph and steered directly towards hundreds of people watching a fireworks display.

Anti-terror police swooped in as the city was put on lockdown and residents were warned to stay indoors for their safety. Gunshots rang out in the streets, with gunmen targeting hotels and cafes in the port city in the south of France.

One witness called Antoine said: 'We were at the Neptune beach and a firework display had just finished. That is when we saw a white lorry. It was going quickly at 60-70 kilometres an hour.'

The gunman jumped out of the truck after ploughing through the pedestrians and began opening fire, witnesses said. Officials said the driver was shot dead near the scene. A second suspect is thought to be on the run.

Eyewitness Wassim Bouhlel said that he saw a truck drive into the crowd and then witnessed the man emerge with a gun and start shooting.

'There was carnage on the road,' Bouhlel said. 'Bodies everywhere.'

Anti terrorist police have taken over the investigation into the attack according to the French interior ministry.



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Here's a video of the immediate aftermath (graphic): https://mobile.twitter.com/Daradol1/status/753713558849019910
 
I'm so tired of this crap. I don't want to see it. I don't want to spend a lot of time on it. They need to deal with it. Unfortunately, it's become just a normal part of life.
 
The local Prefecture described the slaughter as a “terrorist attack” but an interior ministry spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, said it was too early to be certain of the killers’ motives. [...] The local newspaper, Nice-Matin, reports that the man driving the truck was a 31-year-old Nice resident of Tunisian origin. The truck driver was said to have shouted 'Allahu Akbar' — God is greatest — before being shot dead by police. [...] there were reports that an accomplice had fled and that guns and grenades were found in the lorry.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-crowd-at-bastille-day-celebrations-in-nice2/
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"And so the world waits with bated breath to learn if requiring Rent-A-Truck-Euro to do background checks would have prevented individuals of a too prematurely determined origin with unclear motives from being involved in an ambiguous incident which possibly went a tad beyond moving furniture to a new residence." --Late night talk show host later castigated for inappropriate, recent headline-related sarcasm
 
France is the 4th largest arms dealing in the World.

There's a picture of a little girl, her mangled body in a body bag, with her doll lying on the ground next to her. I wonder: Will the media send her picture around the world, as it did for that poor boy who drown on the beaches of Greece?

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

My suggestion to The Millennials, go long sun block.
 
The sad part is we are going to give the terrorists exactly what they want, oodles of media coverage. And they will do it again. They will keep doing it until they can't or we stop rewarding them with media coverage.
 
I don't know what to say about this. It's too terrible.

Fanatics are far too prevalent and enabled these days, and the terror campaign is absolutely winning. Just damned near everywhere.
 
Glass Half Empty
I think it was in the novel Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner that I read half a century ago, that acts of terrorism are reported almost as asides, in the early chapters. It is part of a technique to convey how different a world the author is portraying where gross acts of terror are accompanied by a brief media flurry, then forgotten. It struck me at the time as a very unpleasant world in which to live. We seem to have arrived.

Glass Half Full
We evolved to live in tribes of around one hundred people. Today there are over seven billion of us. For an ape that figured out that opposable thumb opened up real opportunities we have done not too badly. It will take several more generations to evolve the social skills to handle a global society, but the journey has begun.
 
Ophiolite said:
Glass Half Empty
I think it was in the novel Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner that I read half a century ago, that acts of terrorism are reported almost as asides, in the early chapters. It is part of a technique to convey how different a world the author is portraying where gross acts of terror are accompanied by a brief media flurry, then forgotten. It struck me at the time as a very unpleasant world in which to live. We seem to have arrived.

Glass Half Full
We evolved to live in tribes of around one hundred people. Today there are over seven billion of us. For an ape that figured out that opposable thumb opened up real opportunities we have done not too badly. It will take several more generations to evolve the social skills to handle a global society, but the journey has begun.
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or, the engineering perspective:
Glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 
joepistole said:
The sad part is we are going to give the terrorists exactly what they want, oodles of media coverage. And they will do it again. They will keep doing it until they can't or we stop rewarding them with media coverage.
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I doubt that not providing media coverage will cause terrorism to dry up and go away.

I think the publicity for world-wide empathy and awareness outweighs the downside of what the terrorists get from it.
 
sculptor said:
Seriously:
There ain't a damned thing that you nor I can do about it.
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Well, that's not really true.

Alone, no. But great changes have been made in the world by individuals banding together to bring awareness to a cause that, though perhaps not right away, does make lasting change.
 
DaveC426913 said:
I doubt that not providing media coverage will cause terrorism to dry up and go away.

I think the publicity for world-wide empathy and awareness outweighs the downside of what the terrorists get from it.
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Who said not provide any media coverage? There is nothing wrong with reporting the news and a terrorist event is news. What is wrong is to dwell on it for hours, days and weeks. Were it not for the coup in Turkey, we would be talking about the latest terrorist attack for weeks.
 
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joepistole said:
Who said not provide any media coverage? There is nothing wrong with reporting the news and a terrorist event is news.
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So, you're suggesting moderation is OK. Terrorists don't benefit from it if we show it in moderation.

I'm stil curious who the "they" is you mention in post #2.
 
Ophiolite said:
It will take several more generations to evolve the social skills to handle a global society, but the journey has begun.
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this is probably more relevant than most would consider...aka "Globalization teething problems" and a huge global societal "evolution" or dare I suggest "revolution" issue on it's own...
 
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