Apparently they are storming the concert hall now.
Huh? France has a top flight military. They even have nukes, which I suppose they could use on the concert hall if they wanted to.
Good hunting to them.
The CNN website is reporting that too. They’re saying it’s risky, because they won’t know enough yet about the building. But if ivylass is correct, and they’re shooting hostages one by one, I guess that’s forced their hand.
I guess the count is at 60 now.
Fighters and bombers over Paris would be a waste of jet fuel. It’s not like ISIS has an armored division in France. This is irregular warfare and will result in a resurgence of nationalism in European nations.
Fox News reporting attack on concert hall has ended. 2 gunmen dead.
May they rot in Hell.
Fingers crossed for the hostages.
ivylass, Paris is quite a goodly distance from the borders for friendly reinforcements to get there; the allied countries’ best course of action right now is to be at the ready for any possible follow-up, coordinated or sympathetic attack on them.
Yeah, bad situation, once they start executing hostages you pretty much have to act. Of course that means you’re likely to end up with mass civilian casualties anyway in the melee.
With the events of this year, I fear that to paraphrase an earlier famous quote, the fences and checkpoints are going back up all across Europe and they are not getting taken back down in a while…
I feel for the refugees as well. It’s like wherever they go and whatever they do, the same people keep fucking them over.
ETA: I’m a little surprised, though, that the crisis is still ongoing. After so many weeks of waves and scores of refugees fleeing Syria, I would’ve thought that they’d have run out of people.
I suspect you are right. Fortress Europe.
BBC’s usually on the ball, but they’re dropping it on this one. No mention at all about the theater storming. Just interviewing analysts and asking inane questions such as “Do you think this coordinated?”
Not soon enough.
Fuck this. Hope they nab everyone of the shitheads and dispose of them. Honestly, what else can anyone do??
I’m just hoping its ending now and there’s no other threats in nearby countries.
Apparently they were “throwing explosives” at the hostages, not just shooting them one by one. So yeah; waiting wasn’t much of an option.
They aren’t all from Syria.
Unfortunately, this is also going to give Trump ammunition. He was the one wringing his hand over terrorists infiltrating the refugee groups, and now BBC is talking the same!
EDIT: Okay, BBC is now reporting the theater storming. Glad it was quick.
Fuck that, put their heads on pikes and let them rot.
As far as I’ve understood from France24s English coverage, the perpetrators aren’t so much suspected to be Syrian nationals as they’re suspected to be returnees from the Syrian and Iraqi conflict.
I really worry that this terrorist attack will incite a wave of ultranationalist violence across Europe - they’re already burning down refugee centres now; God only knows what likely could be hundreds of innocent lives will become the twisted justification for.