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posted by n1 on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:00AM   Printer-friendly

France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders after at least 40 people were killed in multiple shootings in Paris.

At least 15 people were killed near the Bataclan arts centre, where up to 60 people are being held hostage. Explosions and gunfire are reported.

Three people were killed in an attack near the Stade de France, with some reports suggesting a suicide blast.

Paris authorities have urged people to stay indoors.

Military personnel are being deployed across Paris.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/13/455943961/violence-reported-in-paris
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/world/paris-shooting/index.html

Update #1 [BBC updates]:

Scores of people have been killed in multiple gun and bomb attacks in Paris

At least 100 people are reported to have died inside the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris

Others died in attacks near the Stade de France, where France were playing Germany, and at restaurants

France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders

Paris residents have been asked to stay indoors and military personnel are being deployed across the city

[...] Reuters. quoting an un-named official at Paris City Hall, says the current death toll in Paris is around 140.

Update #2:

According to the Paris prosecutor, of the four assailants who died during the sidge at the Bataclan, three committed suicide by detonating explosive vests. The prosecutor has warned that some of their accomplices may "still be on the loose".

[...] Here is what French president François Hollande told reporters outside the Bataclan concert hall just now: "To all those who have seen these awful things, I want to say we are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow."


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Tork on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:04AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:04AM (#262944)
    The scariest thing about terrorism is the way it can turn masses of ignorant dipshits like you into weapons of perpetuatuon.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:31AM (#262961)

    It didn't turn him into anything. He always was that, and just had it corked up inside. Now he gets to pop the cork and spray it over everyone, and claim he's better than you as he predicted this would happen all along.

    I may believe that muslims have a mental disease (for believing that fairy-stories are real), but EF and his ilk are just as sociopathic. And now they get to troll us. Let them have their day, let them wallow in the filth and blood. That doesn't make them winners.

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:15AM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Saturday November 14 2015, @02:15AM (#262981) Journal

    I'd mod you up, but I keep getting this error:

    Re::^)(10598-262944, Already moderated)

    -.-;;

    I truly live in interesting times. While replying to the resident troll (ah but we love him, because he's our troll!), somebody keeping a level head gets -1, troll.

    Good grief, people! This is a tragedy, but remember, this was all put into place by the Illuminati when they ousted the democratically elected and progressive government of Iran way back when.

    The final pieces of their script are coming together.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:53AM

      by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:53AM (#263032) Homepage Journal

      I just looked at that's posts mod log, and it looks like a freaking yoyo.

      Ethanol-fueled is one of those people that could start a riot with one carefully aimed sentence. I'm both impressed and frightened at that power.

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      • (Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:18AM

        by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:18AM (#263040) Journal

        I was being facetious, but I hope you gathered that. I can imagine it's a yoyo. I'll bet this entire discussion is a mod-bombing yoyo. I've blown 4 of my mod points for the day here. I'll probably spend that last one here, too.

        • (Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:23AM

          by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Saturday November 14 2015, @04:23AM (#263045) Journal

          And lo and behold, there it goes! My apologies if you thought I was reporting an actual error, NCommander.

          • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Saturday November 14 2015, @06:46AM

            by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Saturday November 14 2015, @06:46AM (#263103) Homepage Journal

            Of all the stuff we've touched in rehash (the codebase that powers SN), the mod testing code is basically a full rewrite from Slashdot, so I won't be hugely surprised if we made a mistake somewhere and people mass-modding someone caused a race condition and a post to go -2, or +6 even!

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          • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:02PM

            by fritsd (4586) on Saturday November 14 2015, @01:02PM (#263216) Journal

            I'm angry and just posted a tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory (one of my better ones, actually).

            It affects all of us in different ways.

            Somehow I'm still glad this oasis of crazy people, soylentnews, exists.

            Soon enough all the news will be how president Marine le Pen led the world away from climate mitigation and into war with Syria.

    • (Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday November 15 2015, @02:54AM

      by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 15 2015, @02:54AM (#263540)
      Thank you.
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