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An attack has occurred this morning when an individual carrying 2 backpacks and possibly weapons approached the Louvre in Paris and was engaged by a soldier who fired 5 shots. The assailant was wounded, as was a soldier during the attack. One report claims that the attacker shouted Islamic slogans during the attack.
1111GMT: A second possible assailant has been arrested. The French Govt have confirmed it is a terrorist attack.
1117GMT: It is confirmed that the first assailant attacked a soldier with a machete before being engaged and wounded.
1215GMT: Latest TV statements. The first assailant attacked a security officer and/or soldier with a machete causing wounds to his arm and face, while shouting "Allahu Akbar". A second soldier then engaged the assailant with rifle fire resulting in the assailant being seriously wounded in the stomach. The first assailant was carrying 2 backpacks but no explosives have been found in them. A search of the area is continuing. A second assailant has been arrested within the last hour a short distance away from the scene of the attack.
The Louvre Museum and the area around it is in lock-down, and the public and local workers are been evacuated from the area. The French Govt are releasing only statements that they can verify and are refusing to speculate any further during media questioning.
takyon: French soldier shoots attacker outside Louvre
Assailant Near Louvre Is Shot by French Soldier
Machete attack on soldier near Louvre was of 'terrorist nature'
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 03 2017, @11:51AM
I guess sometimes it's handy having the EIC in country for the story. He can just watch the local news and type as is relevant.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday February 03 2017, @12:11PM
I'll admit it, this is the first time I have seen breaking terrorist news on SN before anywhere else (working on something and glanced here before Google News).
Adding BBC link to the link-less summary.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by driverless on Friday February 03 2017, @02:37PM
Terrorist attack? A nutcase waving a knife now makes international news headlines just because he said the magic trigger words "Allahu Akbar"? If he'd forgotten to say that, would it have got any further than about page 3 of Le Monde, if that?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday February 03 2017, @03:00PM
I was just waking up when I wrote that. I covered it in another comment. Fuck off! Make Allah great again!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @03:03PM
Yep, just like a guy stabbing black people shouting "die you fucking niggers" is a hate crime. I guess you just don't GET this whole terrorism thing, huh? Islam has nothing to do with it....
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 03 2017, @03:54PM
Seriously. Go put "knife attack" in Google News. Looks like there were at least three other knife attacks in the US in the last 24 hours. None of which made it past "page 3."
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday February 03 2017, @03:59PM
Oh noes! This is gonna scare the crap outta ol' Runaway! Quick, some one prep his safe zone, stat!!
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday February 03 2017, @05:06PM
OMG!! the Muslims are out to get us all! /s
Meanwhile there were at least 10 gang shootings in Stockton, California last month, and just as many in Salinas, California, and god knows how many in LA.
People who feel held down and cheated in life often commit violent acts. See news at 11.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Friday February 03 2017, @07:51PM
" A nutcase waving a knife "
A nutcase waving a knife is no big deal here in the Land of the Free where I can own a gun.
A nutcase waving a knife, a couple nutcases waving guns, a nutcase with a bomb suit, a couple nutcases driving trucks, and a LOT of nutcases doing a LOT of raping (statistically, much higher than native populations) and they are ALL coming from the same cultural background...you must be willfully ignorant if you believe there is not a trend that should go noticed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @08:00PM
> statistically, much higher than native populations
Since you reference statistics, let's see them.
Not anecdata, an actual comparison of crimes rates.
After all, that's the basis of your entire argument, right?
So you must have these numbers, please share them with us so that we can all be persuaded to agree with you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @10:14PM
and they are ALL coming from the same cultural background...you must be willfully ignorant if you believe there is not a trend that should go noticed.
This is exactly why I demand that all immigration from Britain be halted immediately! Ever since they discovered football, they have just been a bunch of violent rapey hooligans! Make American Grate again! Keep out the Brits!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @01:52AM
Make American Grate again!
Don't worry, it's grating enough as it is!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @07:52PM
6 people killed, 12 injured by a white supremacist in a country on our border and trump has nothing to say
some idiot swings a machete and trump goes all in on twitter
By the end of the day he's going to be calling it the massacre at the louvre
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday February 04 2017, @03:33AM
Huh, I thought he tweeted that a Moroccan was responsible along with FOX stating the same. True that there was no redaction after the tweet or follow up that I'm aware off.
Difference between serious journalism and fake news is that the serious journalist will apologize and retract after making a mistake (everyone makes mistakes), fake news will stick with their story or at best move on to the next outrageous lie.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday February 04 2017, @08:18AM
The responsible Minister in France have released the following information regarding the attacker:
Perhaps more significant is that neither Egypt nor Dubai are included in the 7 countries that the Whitehouse believes pose the greatest security threat. Nor was the assailant an 'immigrant' but rather a tourist, which contradicts what others have claimed ("Just call them what they are. Muslim immigrants.") in the comments to this story.
Trump tweets seem to be widely inaccurate considering that he is supposed to the be most powerful man on earth, and supposedly the most well-informed if we look how much is being spent to counter the threat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @08:20AM
Hey, get out of here with your pesky logic poking holes in our desired narrative! We have some sand to stick our heads in over here!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @09:45PM
Dry was referring to the white nationalist in canada - trump only had anything to say about that when he thought the guy was a muzzie from Morocco. Once the shooter's angry whiteness became undeniable, trump turtled up.
(Score: 2) by dry on Sunday February 05 2017, @03:06AM
If you look at the parent of my post, an AC at 0, you would see I was responding to a post about the Quebec attack. BTW, as of yesterday Fox still had not taken down its incorrect tweet.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday February 05 2017, @03:03PM