Posted on 05/27/2008 11:45:44 PM PDT by HAL9000
via translation -
One man was very seriously injured in the night when handling an explosive device in an apartment in Clichy-la-Garenne in the Paris suburbs. It is "in a desperate state", according to a source close to the investigation.An important security perimeter was set up in the avenue, one of the main arteries of Clichy, and began to be lifted to 04H00. Demining services were present. According to a police source, the sub-directorate terrorism (SDAT) was seized of the investigation.
According to the mayor of Clichy, Gilles Catoire, who was on the spot, "a large quantity of explosives was found in the apartment, which is part of a building owned postal services.
Lousy explosives. They should have gone up in a sympathetic detonation -- triggered by the first one...
It's sarcasm, right?
A few speed radars were blow up over the last couple of years in France. The heinous contraptions are armored machines that take a photo of your plate when you speed by. The perps were thought to be excitable people fed up by constant speeding fine.
I am shocked to see that the French Post Office, this model of governmental agency, harbored one of these apprentice-terrorists. (/sarc)
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Suspected ‘speed camera’ guerrilla blows himself up
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | May 28, 2008 | Henry Samuel
Posted on May 28, 2008 5:24:05 PM PDT by PROCON
A Frenchman suspected of involvement in a wave of attacks against speed cameras near Paris had both hands blown off this morning when his home-made bomb exploded in his flat. Police said his condition was critical.
Interior minister Michèle Alliot-Marie said multiple clues pointed to the 41-year old postal worker being linked to the Nationalist Revolutionary Army Faction (Fnar), a shadowy guerrilla group which has claimed responsibility for destroying dozens of speed traps.
Investigators say the man exclaimed: I am from the Fnar when firemen arrived at his flat in Clichy-La-Garenne, west of Paris.
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