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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
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Machete attack on soldier near Louvre was of 'terrorist nature'
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @03:06PM
Stop calling these people 'terrorists'; they aren't terrorizing anyone.
Just call them what they are. Muslim immigrants.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday February 03 2017, @03:32PM
I don't see any indication that he was an immigrant. That he shouted "Allahu Akbar" is an indication that he probably is Muslim, but even that is not a given — he might just have chosen to do so because it generates the most attention these days.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Friday February 03 2017, @05:28PM
I don't see any indication that he was an immigrant.
I don't see any indication that the small bird floating out on the lake going "quack quack quack" is a duck either. It COULD be a hippopotamus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @05:54PM
Because only immigrants can shout the trigger phrase, Allah Ackbar.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Friday February 03 2017, @07:03PM
How about a tally of say the last 50 times someone started murdering and yelling "Allah ackbar". Take note of how many times they were immigrants and how many not. Let me know if you find any statistical correlation. CUCKOLD.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @09:57PM
I'm sure you would have a point if I counted anybody whose grandparents weren't born on native soil as an immigrant.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Saturday February 04 2017, @12:09AM
Oh surprise surprise, perpetrator is Abdallah E-H, an Egyptian who came from Dubai a week earlier. It's not racist to tell the truth. There is a serious problem, however, with people who try to hide the facts by alleging racism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @12:13AM
Ah, so finally we have an actual immigrant! That's definitely a change. See you next time somebody shouts Allah Ackbar!
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Saturday February 04 2017, @02:05AM
Probably next week.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @02:39AM
An Egyptian from United Arab Emirates arrives from Dubai and swings a big knife around, wounding one.
This is why we need to stop accepting Syrian refugees and other immigrants.
...
Wait, what?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @10:27PM
I don't see any indication that the small bird floating out on the lake going "quack quack quack" is a duck either
But that, Dunbal, is because you are a cowardly racist idiot. Surely you can see the cases are not analogous?
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday February 03 2017, @11:51PM
In an update with new information, the NYT [nytimes.com] quotes an unnamed French prosecutor as saying that "the man who attacked soldiers in front of the Louvre Museum is believed to be a 29-year-old Egyptian" who had been "living in the United Arab Emirates."
So while maybe an immigrant, maybe not, he does not appear to be local, nor a native Frenchman.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @12:59AM
Sky News (Australian News Channel) says [skynews.com.au]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @04:46PM
About 99% of the immigrants I've seen on TV are poor, wretched people that are fleeing war zones or persecution. They look like they've been to hell and back. A lot of them are children. Why are you scared of them? If you have compassion, then help them. Sheesh, what's wrong with people these days?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @04:38AM
The media portrayal is distorted. Women and children make photogenic refugees, so they get most of the pictures.
In reality 90% of the refugees arriving in western Europe are adult males.
If they really are leaving such a hellish place, makes you wonder what sort of men they are, to leave their families in hell while they escape.