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posted by janrinok on Friday February 03 2017, @11:10AM   Printer-friendly
From BBC Television News:

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'

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday February 03 2017, @03:13PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday February 03 2017, @03:13PM (#462402) Journal

    No, I rather think GreatAuntAnesthesia is on the right track with this--treat them like common, ordinary criminals. If you treat them differently, like you're talking about, you make them something to aspire to. Everybody wants to be the virtuous freedom fighter that stands up to evil overlords who shoot down people in the street like dogs. Nobody aspires to be Skippy the Wonder Flunky who shoots up the Circle K. The symbolic dimension makes all the difference.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @07:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @07:56PM (#462566)

    > No, I rather think GreatAuntAnesthesia is on the right track with this--treat them like common, ordinary criminals.

    Exactly the way we do all the other terrorists like white nationalists.

    > If you treat them differently, like you're talking about, you make them something to aspire to.

    But you forget that derpaway is the resident daesh collaborator. His goal is exactly the same as theirs - to play them up into an existential threat.