Dead. No big media-circus trial. Oh, well.
Because before that he wasn’t?
I meant to put that bit in quotes, actually. Came from the interior minister. There’s a very formulaic vocabulary for the public officials here (see Sarkozy’s references to Republic) , and from what I gather they were at this point worried about losing more police.
They were hesitating at first to even say that he was killed by police action, saying initially that ‘he was found dead on the ground’ after exiting the flat. Now the prosecutor is saying in press conference that he was shot in the head by the response squad in self defence.
The police can’t shoot an armed man who refuses to surrender? It has to be in self defense?
I’ll take Defenestration for $100, Alex!
I must have heard it wrong. I heard he sprung out of the bathroom shooting & dived out of the balcony window still shooting, only to die from his fall to the street below.
But, if he was going for a John Woo ending, doesn’t it lose something if his pants were around his knees & he had a Charmin trailer…?
You got me there- I don’t know what the protocol is for that. I’m still trying to figure out the ‘prosecuting judges’ here.
I do know they desperately wanted him alive, as he’d said to expect some further big actions in Paris, Lyon, Marsailles and again in Toulouse. So they have no idea if he was really alone or working with a larger cell.
Perhaps someone shot him as he ran by.
Latest is now a group associated with Al Qaeda claimning the shootings. Maybe jumping on the bandwagon?
Apologies for my key-mashing spelling of Marseille.
Funny, that always works in the movies . . .
So you think he woke up at a Magic the Gathering tournament?
I’m reminded that one scholar has theorized that the “72 virgins” is a mistranslation and it was actually 72 almond raisins(which to 7th Century Arabs would have been a huge delicacy).
I’d certainly love to see the look on his face as he gets to paradise and is given his reward.
A raisin is still a f–king raisin, covered with yogurt, chocolate or almonds.
In France, the prosecutor is a judge instead of an attorney. Yeah, that sounded strange to me when I first learned it too.
I swear I heard on NPR that his leap out of the window was all over live TV, but I haven’t seen that footage being glorified in the media as these things tend to be.
There’s two people, actually: the person who heads the research team is a judge (who btw must have a law degree), the person who presents it to the tribunal is a different person (who must also have a law degree but is not a judge). The research judge and the judging judge(s) must be different ones.
Unlikely- at least from an official source. They press was kept back at such a distance and angle that they could only see the top of the building. The rest of the street was pretty well blocked off with vans/cars belongingto the police.
That said, you could hear the gunfire on the news reports.
NM, I was going to post about the Russian incident, but someone beat me to it.
Maybe they’re sexy raisins?
Anybody seen “The Life of Emile Zola”?
Somebody ought to name a pothole after him. “Asphalt”
It’s worse than that.