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Paris car-ramming Suspect Recovering in Hospital before Police Interview

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French police are waiting to interview the man suspected of ploughing a car into a group of soldiers as he recovers from wounds after being shot during his arrest.

The suspect has been named as Hamou Bachir Benlatreche, a 36-year-old Algerian national, legally resident in France and unknown to the security services. He is in a serious condition in hospital after he was shot while being apprehended on a motorway in northern France.

Mohammed Benlatreche, the suspect’s uncle, said he did not recognise the photograph of his nephew with a long beard in the media, and insisted he had never shown any inclination toward or support for terrorism.

“I was astonished when I saw the picture on the television. I’ve never seen him with a beard. Never. He was always shaved. He attended prayers like any Muslim. You could have knocked me over,” Benlatreche told BFMTV.

The latest attack, the sixth on France’s security services in less than two years, has brought criticism over the continuation of Operation Sentinelle, introduced following the attacks in Paris in January 2015 and expanded as part of a national state of emergency after the series of bombings and shootings in the French capital in November that year.

Between 7,000 and 10,000 soldiers along with several thousand gendarmes and police have been patrolling France since the attacks, half of them in and around Paris.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...o-interview-suspect-after-car-rammed-soldiers

Another 'surprised' relative of a terrorist has spoken up, nearly identical to the Bastille Day massacre terrorist's family.

These Islam inspired terrorists are finding it harder to attack citizens or tourists, so they're going after security forces instead.

With France now in a defensive posture that sees 10,000 soldiers being forced to guard against foreign nationals or home grown Islamists who may turn violent, you'd think France would be rethinking it's politics.
 
You would think terrorists driving into crowds think we're dumb, or something.
 
You would think terrorists driving into crowds think we're dumb, or something.

You would think that hundreds of terrorists drive into crowds in Europe every day. Gun deaths are a far bigger problem in the US. Perhaps they should take a look at their politics.
 
Europe could have 100 terrorist attacks a year and still be a dramatically safer place per capita than the US.
 
Europe could have 100 terrorist attacks a year and still be a dramatically safer place per capita than the US.

They need more troops on the streets in the US.
 
Because terrorist attacks using cars never happen in the US...

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Oh wait...
 
Because terrorist attacks using cars never happen in the US...

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Oh wait...

Europe is the place where Islamic terrorists try to kill me every time I set foot outside my house. Perhaps I should move to the idyllic paradise known as the US.
 
Another 'surprised' relative of a terrorist has spoken up, nearly identical to the Bastille Day massacre terrorist's family.

These Islam inspired terrorists are finding it harder to attack citizens or tourists, so they're going after security forces instead.

With France now in a defensive posture that sees 10,000 soldiers being forced to guard against foreign nationals or home grown Islamists who may turn violent, you'd think France would be rethinking it's politics.

Are you missing Coldjoint?
 
Wow, Charlottesville happened just in the nick of time for you, didn't it?

Mute me and don't respond to me. Your posts are visual excrement.

And the loss of all credibility going forward happened right here.

You could have denounced Charlottesville, "truth", and shown that all your rhetoric is actually balanced...maybe then all your religious prejudice could have been legitimately called something else. Instead the only acknowledgment of the incident that killed one person and injured nineteen more, five of those in critical condtion - and that's not even counting the two dead cops that would be alive if they hadn't had to deal with that BS white nationalist rally in the first plac - was to call it convenient to another poster during a debate.

You outted yourself here, "truth".
 
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You outted yourself here, "truth".
I'd give points for self-irony on user names like that except that all posters holding stuff like "truth" or "reality" in their user names are usually totally devoid of self irony.
 
And the loss of all credibility going forward happened right here.

You could have denounced Charlottesville, "truth", and shown that all your rhetoric is actually balanced...maybe then all your religious prejudice could have been legitimately called something else. Instead the only acknowledgment of the incident that killed one person and injured nineteen more, five of those in critical condtion - and that's not even counting the two dead cops that would be alive if they hadn't had to deal with that BS white nationalist rally in the first plac - was to call it convenient to another poster during a debate.

You outted yourself here, "truth".

If only it were really that simple Nate. The truth is, I can denounce what happened in Charlottesville all I like, and it's not going to make any difference to posters like PoS, Chagos, etc. Either you agree with them 100% of the time, or you're a myriad of derogatory buzzwords.

As an aside, I do denounce what happened in Charlottesville. It was a horrific and cowardly act to plow into innocent people, and I'm hoping the perpetrator gets the stiffest penalties possible. But what the hell has it got to do with an attack that happened in Paris?

All anyone here wants to discuss is American violence. What does that tell you? It should tell you that these people are guilty of the exact accusations you leveled at me! They simply don't care about the story in the OP.
 
...These Islam inspired terrorists are finding it harder to attack citizens or tourists, so they're going after security forces instead...

So, let me get this right a second. The terrorists are finding it harder to attack crowds of unarmed people than armed and trained security people?

Do you read what you type?
 
So, let me get this right a second. The terrorists are finding it harder to attack crowds of unarmed people than armed and trained security people?

Do you read what you type?

I wonder about that too.
 
So, let me get this right a second. The terrorists are finding it harder to attack crowds of unarmed people than armed and trained security people?

Do you read what you type?

Look at the number of attacks against police & military in 2016-2017. They outnumber the attacks against civilians, though more civilians have died because the Bastille Day attack had so many fatalities.

What do you chalk this up to?
 
Look at the number of attacks against police & military in 2016-2017. They outnumber the attacks against civilians, though more civilians have died because the Bastille Day attack had so many fatalities.

What do you chalk this up to?

Terrorism.
 
Terrorism.
That...........................

and the fact that French security personnel, in its over-abundant appearance by now, provides more opportunity.

A French "fête" is generally so heavily guarded by now that getting past the security measures provides the greater challenge than going for a random patrol.

Of course none of this applies to other European countries so far as alone the UK shows.
 
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